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Update to YouTube Dislike Counts Announcement
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Hi everyone, 
 
Earlier this year, we experimented with the dislike count to see whether or not changes could help better protect creators from harassment, and reduce dislike attacks – where people work to drive up the number of dislikes on a creator’s videos.
 
What we learned from the experiment: 
Those in the experiment could still see and use the public dislike button, but because the count was not visible to them, we found that they were less likely to target a video’s dislike button to drive up the count. In short, our experiment data showed a reduction in dislike attacking behavior 1. We’ve also heard directly from smaller creators, and those just getting started with their YouTube channel, that they are unfairly targeted by dislike attacks. Our experiment data confirmed that this behavior does occur at a higher proportion on smaller channels. 
 
What’s changing with dislikes starting today: 
Based on what we learned, we’re moving forward with making the dislike count private across YouTube–this means that the dislike button is staying, but the number of dislikes on a video will only be available to creators in Studio and not visible to the public on the video’s page. This change is gradually rolling out starting today. 
 
 
 
Here’s what to expect based on how you use YouTube: 
  • Creators: You’ll still be able to find your exact dislike counts in YouTube Studio for each video–only if you’d like to. Creators will still be able to find their exact dislike counts in YouTube Studio if they would like to understand how their content is performing. There are many other metrics available to help you analyze your video and channel performance, so review this Help Center Guide that covers YouTube Analytics tools and reports (especially recommend visiting the “Engagement tab” in Studio and checking out key moments for audience retention).
  • Viewers: You can still dislike videos to further personalize and tune your recommendations, the only change is you won’t be able to view the number of dislikes on the video. We understand that some of you have used dislikes to help decide whether or not to watch a video–still, we believe this is the right thing to do for our platform, and to help create an inclusive and respectful environment where creators have the opportunity to succeed and feel safe to express themselves.
  • Developers: If you’re using the YouTube API for dislikes, you will no longer have access to public dislike data beginning on December 13th. Your end users will still be able to view dislike data related to their own content on authenticated API requests. You can apply for an exemption (to have dislike data on non-authenticated calls) as long as you don’t display or share dislike data with your end users.
For more top questions and answers about this experiment and today’s update, hear directly from YouTube’s Creator Liaison Matt Koval in this YouTube video: Update to YouTube's Dislike Count
 
As always, I’ll be monitoring questions and feedback in the comments below. 
-Meaghan, TeamYouTube
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Hi everyone, 

Jumping in to share answers to a few top FAQS. Please see below:
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Q: This feels like censorship. For many, the dislike button was informative and way to express feedback.
A: If it helps, you can still dislike a video, and creators will see this feedback privately in Studio if they choose to look up the dislike count metric. We are not removing the ability to dislike content. 

While we understand and respect that not everyone welcomes this change, it’s an important step to reduce behavior that aims to silence and harass creators, especially smaller creators and channels just getting started on YouTube. Please feel free to watch the YouTube Creator Liason video for more background, information from our earlier experiment, and other details https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxOuG8jMIgI

Q: This isn't about protecting small content creators, it's about protecting big brands/advertisers.
A: We see why some folks might think that though it’s absolutely not the case. We are making the dislike count private to protect our creators by reducing targeted dislike attacks on their channels.

Q: YouTube is doing this in response to YouTube Rewind 2018 
A: We *have* learned the hard way how it feels to get a lot of dislikes ;) but no, this change is about protecting our creators, especially those smaller creators and channels just trying to get started on YouTube.
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We will continue to monitor your feedback and reply to questions as needed. We appreciate you being a part of our community and sharing your thoughts on this launch with us. 

Thank you!
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This is fundamentally a form of censorship and I am very unhappy about it. For me the dislike button was informative. If feels like they are trying to create a world where everything can only be good, better, even more better, which just doesn't represent reality.
Imagine Stack Overflow only having the option to upvote Questions and Answers. The ratio of likes vs dislikes of a TED talk does help me to decide if I should stop watching a video which just isn't getting better.
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This isn’t about small content creators. It’s almost certainly about big brands (advertisers) that hate it when their high budget movie/game/trailer/whatever gets publicly downvoted.
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Yet another good reason to avoid youtube, since this interferes with my ability to quickly assess which videos on technical things are worth watching.

Youtube has become more interested in making life easy for brands on youtube than on helping actual viewers. So it goes. Bye. (I was a subscriber. Now I won't be.)
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I dislike this post. I note that you only provide an "upvote" for your content as well, how convenient.
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Downvoting this!! This is withdrawing one of the key signals the public has. Justifying this anti-information by saying that some were hurt by it doesn't justify putting Youtube viewers into perpetual dark. Stop feeding us this junk.
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Sir please support me viral my short Video please
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Sir please support me viral my short Video please sir Tr deepakyt
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Can we see the raw experiment data itself?
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Phew good change! Now nobody will remember the dislikes on YouTube Rewind 2018
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No one asked for this, hiding like/dislike ratio is already a thing if need be. This changed isn't wanted nor needed, I sincerely hope Youtube listen to its community and rolls back on this.
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I don't think you understand how  angry people are about this. 
You are sabotaging your community and your platform.  
We didn't get to vote for this, we didn't get to consent to this,  you just do things to our ability to discern legit information from disinformation. 
We will file  reports to the fcc and ftc and local representatives about the dangers of this platform as a response.
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My channel please subscribe and share like comment no my channel
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Play strike hata do
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I know that currently there is an option for creators to hide the likes and dislikes for the public. With this change, I've been wondering if it is possible to do it the other way around (the videos defaults to a hidden like/dislike bar and the youtuber can make it public manually)
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who asked for this feature?
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this is awesome, people can now make fake videos, fake facts, and there will be no way to tell with the dislikes, thx a lot! really helps the scammy channels
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Please give creators the option to enable dislikes.
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If there was a dislike button for this change, I would click on it.

Hiding stats to make people feel better is just coddling. If a video is unlikable, then let it be, and don't hide the truth.
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So how am I supposed to gauge if a video is worth my time or not before I watch it? Do I have to look at the comments now? Oh wait, you've been automatically filtering critical comments since at least 2016.
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There are scam videos targeting kids across YouTube, specifically gamers, where the downvote was sometimes the only way to communicate the risks. If a creator turned off comments, this was the only "signal" you could send to other users that a video wasn't safe. 

YouTube needs to recognize that videos which are encouraging kids to commit ad fraud, download risky "gaming plugins" and other behavior that exposes them to account takeover risks, need ways for researchers to get those videos pulled, and/or communicate risks to end-users.
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I don't want you to. I use your products. If you do this I'm done with YouTube. As you are doing this to control culture, this is not the job of your platform. You cannot restrict one side of the argument by not allowing it to be posted, then amplify the other side of the argument you allow to be posted by only showing when people like it and not dislike it. This is very dangerous for society. I believe you're doing it on purpose and I will promote and use other platforms that are not doing these evil things.
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Everyone sees this for exactly what this is.  No one trusts you anymore.  It's all manufactured reality and we're sick of it. 

Your studies also show that wildly unpopular videos and people are the ones to benefit from this.
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What a stupid fucking change. Y'all are actually braindead.
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Shouldn't the number of likes be hidden as well?
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Hi everyone, 

Jumping in to share answers to a few top FAQS. Please see below:
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Q: This feels like censorship. For many, the dislike button was informative and way to express feedback.
A: If it helps, you can still dislike a video, and creators will see this feedback privately in Studio if they choose to look up the dislike count metric. We are not removing the ability to dislike content. 

While we understand and respect that not everyone welcomes this change, it’s an important step to reduce behavior that aims to silence and harass creators, especially smaller creators and channels just getting started on YouTube. Please feel free to watch the YouTube Creator Liason video for more background, information from our earlier experiment, and other details https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxOuG8jMIgI

Q: This isn't about protecting small content creators, it's about protecting big brands/advertisers.
A: We see why some folks might think that though it’s absolutely not the case. We are making the dislike count private to protect our creators by reducing targeted dislike attacks on their channels.

Q: YouTube is doing this in response to YouTube Rewind 2018 
A: We *have* learned the hard way how it feels to get a lot of dislikes ;) but no, this change is about protecting our creators, especially those smaller creators and channels just trying to get started on YouTube.
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We will continue to monitor your feedback and reply to questions as needed. We appreciate you being a part of our community and sharing your thoughts on this launch with us. 

Thank you!
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I dislike this post and I want to know the count.
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In my opinion this is a terrible change.
Often misleading videos will also have comments disabled, the only way to get an indication that a video is misleading is to see the like:dislike ratio.

Well done on making your platform less useful for the user.
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funny how this post can only be upvoted... hmm
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This sucks. The dislikes tell me about the usefulness of a certain video. It is very helpful when I start looking for tutorials.
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I'm not a fan of this change. It's such a shame, YouTube the company has such a huge disconnect with the YouTube community.
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Plz don't forget the video
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Creators already have the option to disable voting if they wish. All this is going to do is make me waste time on otherwise low quality content and drive me away because there will be no guage on how liked a video is.
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Repeating your FAQ isn't helpful for the thread Meaghan. The removal of dislike statistics is a way to silence people who may be uncomfortable with voicing their opinion. For instance a child could find content they do not like but question their own opinion when seeing nobody else has disliked the video and therefor is discouraged from speaking up. YouTube's decision in this matter is a slippery slope and only aims to monetize more content in the end.
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Why not just make it optional? Why force it on everyone, why not let the smaller channels under attack disable it themselves, or allow others to enable it manually?

When has youtube ever cared about the little guys? Not with DMCAs, or demonetization. The big channels are always prioritised. And this is no different.

This is just to protect the image of media conglomerations who post clips here and nothing more.

Dislikes are so usefull to alerting less tech savvy viewers about scams, misinformation, or stolen footage.
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Of course people aren't going to dislike the video if dislikes are hidden. They don't feel like their voice matters. Why did you instantly jump to the conclusion that dislikes need to be removed?

Also greatly disrespectful on Matt Koval's part that he assumes that we'll just forget about this and "get used to it".
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this will mostly help scammy videos and channels
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This is censorship, plain and simple. It also hurts viewers, now we can't tell if a video is terrible or not ahead of time. You might as well remove ALL ratings if you're going to do this.
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We are making the dislike count private to protect our creators by reducing targeted dislike attacks on their channels.

Bullshit. You have elaborate statistics on viewers and how they consume content. You could easily discard „unwarrented“ dislikes and attacks. A like to dislike ratio gives any viewer in the category immediate feedback how valuable the content within that community is. This change couldn‘t be more obvious. It‘s a joke to protect your ad revenue.
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garbage idea
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Hi Meaghan, why can't channels enable the count instead of just removing it. Quality creators are not going to be afraid of dislikes.
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LOL, YouTube likes promoting scammers.
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Like-to-dislike ratio is a very key piece of information that informs whether I watch a video or not. This is a huge downgrade to the user experience. Why not make hiding dislikes opt-in for those channels who wish to implement it? Very disappointing news.
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Video creators have always been able to disable the upvote/downvote ratios and comments.

Every single time I have encountered a video where the counts have been disabled by the creator, it’s because the video has something objectively wrong with it. It’s inaccurate, misleading, poor quality, offensive, or some has some other generally negative attribute.

This happens less so with comments being disabled. Videos with high up to down vote ratios but with disabled comments are usually because the creator is being attacked by trolls. These videos are usually pretty interesting to watch.

This is a short sighted change and is removing an important quality signal to viewers.
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No surprise, yt is all about censorship. What a disgustingly transparent move that will ultimately hurt their reputation
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Hi TeamYouTube, this will hit a large number of viewers badly as it disables the ability to decide whether or not to watch a video based on the like/dislike ratio. I think this decision may work for a small amount of creator but won't work for millions of viewers.
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>Q: This isn't about protecting small content creators, it's about protecting big brands/advertisers.
>A: We see why some folks might think that though it’s absolutely not the case. We are making the dislike count private to protect our creators by reducing targeted dislike attacks on their channels.

If that is true, then why not enable dislikes for large channels? Especially big brands/advertisers.
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I dislike this- comment on every video
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Really unhappy with this change. On technical topics like drivers and help for problems, I know if a video is just another bot generated bullshit-video. Without it, I waste precious time on garbage videos to check if it is legit or bullshit.
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> but because the count was not visible to them, we found that they were less likely to target a video’s dislike button to drive up the count. In short, our experiment data showed a reduction in dislike attacking behavior

So, basically, you proved that it isn’t an attack, and more like herd mentality?

The repeated use of the words “attack” and “harassment” here really makes your creepy ulterior motives that much clearer.
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This doesn't help small channels, this is to protect big brands. Just be honest about it.
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The dislike counter is a good measure to see if a video is on-topic or it's just scam misinformation and thus not worth the time./

Now we have to spend hours watching useless content, and the only one profiting is Youtube from ad revenue.

Edit: Oh you're just copying TikTok.

YT is more than just a place for funny videos but with this you're neglecting all the tutorials and educational content by making us unable to approximately determine their credibility, removing the only measure there is for it (no, views =/= credibility).

Everyone get their memes from TikTok now, and I guess we'll have to get our tutorials from somewhere else too.
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Eye for an eye.

If you're removing dislike count, then remove like count as well. Don't be "that guy", Google.
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you are a joke of a company. nobody wants this besides the white house, and youtube inc.
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You should remove the like button too. It might promote scams that get auto-liked by bots or influenced communities.
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Good. Some people use the internet only to be negative and attack targets most likely to be hurt. Thanks for not feeding the trolls.
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Hi there,
How this will help to protect your viewers from potential scammers or harmful information. Dislike button for masses has more informative character than just bully small youtubers or big companies. This idea is unethical and as company you must take responsibility to protect your customers against scammers and misinformation, not giving to a potential scammer a tool. Specifically this changes will cause multiple cases against Google for promote scams and misinformation on social platform YouTube and will leave bad mark on the company and will associate with scam and misinformation, your clients will start leaving you, as it was before with ads scandal. By helping your client you only shoot to yours and theirs foots (They just don't know it yet). 
P.S. I think you should post full research with numbers, that would be great.
Sincerely Vlad
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Hi, it is not really a form of censorship, thats true. But it is a form of disinformation.

It is NICEWASHING... youtube try to nice all things up and it helps nobody... no content creator will be helped if there video is disliked, they see the dislikes anyway. Its only limit the point of view from other watchers. They only have the indicator of "its nice" not of "its bad"... and that is really really bad.

The only reason to do this is to help companies to look nice and that is a awful practice! Its like make all the negative comments invisibel to all other users. So you dont really censor anyting, but you manipulating the view of the watchers and that is even worse than censoring.

Youtube has the responsability with its big name and its millions of viewers to give them a correct and unedited view on opinions. Not nicewashing there view because something you think is better for them. Thats a thing a dictator would do!

If you say you want to give the content creater an option that the like and dislike are compleetly disabeld or hidden for all. Thats also okey... because the view is in a form of neutral. But to only disable the negative side, you do nicewashing.

So please stop this, your customer are not the ones who pay you to put there adds in, the customers are the million viewers who give you the chance to get payed from them. You take something from your real customers and alienated them. You don't trust them, you think you know better what they want and need.

If you want to know what is the future of a company who alienated there fans, what to disney and starwars or the activision blizzard and world of warcraft. You do the same mistake, you don't ask, you only do.. and thats horrible for customers who pay you with there watchtime to watch all the adds. Don't think that they like this, its awful for them.

Also have a nice day!
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Funny how this tied into the massive dislikes for the Biden/Harris admin.  Hopefully you will keep playing these censorship of anything except ulterior liberal viewpoints until you end your companies existence. The world and the internet will be better off when the purveyors of fake news and cancel themselves with their terminal wholeness.
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When it become available, to see the change, thank you. I see the setting but no option yet but waiting anytime soon.
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We already know who you got your marching orders from, tell them to disable the like/dislike globally on their own channel
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Although I rarely give a thumbs down and prefer just skipping the video, I hope that an extension that solves this amputation appears soon.
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This has to be one of the worst decisions YouTube is made at least within the top 20
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Small grammar correction:

> as long as you don’t display or share dislike data with end your users.

I believe you meant: with your end users

(the alternative seems a bit morbid lol)

Cheers
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Please, also make the likes count private too. Small youtubers aren't getting enough recognition because of this.
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One thing I learned from the 2 years I spent working for one of the big tech companies, is that it's the highest-paying businesses who get their way on these platforms. Facebook and Instagram don't give a rat's ass about the small advertisers or new businesses, but they make special exceptions and cater to Disney's every whim. Why would YouTube be any different?
You're not fooling anyone with your bogus justification for censorship. You're just making yourself look like the CCP. Have fun with that.
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I think the dislike count on this tells you everything you need to know.

I'm sure your advertisers and content farms are super happy though!
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This is a good move. "Dislike" should only be used to help the platform tweak the suggestions. People don't need to know that someone else disliked the video. You are big enough to decide by yourself. Sapere aude
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The dislike counter is the only way to determine if a video is clickbait, a scam, or propaganda without having to waste time viewing it. It is a tool to meter our time and to protect us from malicious creators.

Your contempt for our intelligence is plain by the way you lie through your teeth about its real intent. This is to conceal public pushback against unpopular ideas. It IS censorship and you're hoping we'll believe it's for our benefit.
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"you can still dislike a video, and creators will see this feedback privately in Studio if they choose to look up the dislike count metric"

They just totally missed the point. The dislikes are not for a creator, but for the audience to indicate if the content is good or not.

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"because the count was not visible to them, we found that they were less likely to target a video’s dislike button to drive up the count"

Oh, well maybe people thought the dislike was meaningless, because they couldn't see the result of the action. Do an experiment where you hide likes. Oh, now people like the videos less often. Who would have thought...

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This is one of the worst decisions ever made by YouTube.
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The dislike button acts somewhat as a review button and helps some users determine whether they should spend time watching a video or not. While I do agree that it is unfair when some users are targeted by dislike mobs, this change removes an important feature for the average viewer. This could easily be something that is disabled by default, but can be toggled on in the user settings. Surely Youtube has a way of detecting dislike trolls and restricting their ability to use the dislike button.
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Since I can only "Upvote" this post, I must comment how I disagree with this decision. I wish other platforms would not have removed disliking altogether either.
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This is a terrible decision for the viewers of the platform.
I've often relied on the the like/dislike ratio to filter low value or misleading videos, or to get a sense of the opinion of most viewers, if the video is controversial.
Removing it gives a false sense of security to creators and does a disservice to viewers.
I hope this decision gets reversed sooner or later, or having an actual dislike will be yet another competitive edge for competing platforms.
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>  This feels like censorship.

It feels like censorship because it *is* censorship. You're knowingly suppressing public opinion. Well, I guess you didn't deny it in your answer here, so I suppose you're admitting to blatant censorship. Well, that really sucks that you're OK with that.

> If it helps, you can still dislike a video

No, that doesn't help. I don't dislike a video to let the creator know I didn't like their content, that's just an unfortunate side effect. I do it so other viewers can know it's not good content, or to let others know that I don't agree with an idea / concept, and they don't have to either. I don't see "bandwagoning" as a bad thing in 90% of cases... it likely means that the downvote ratio caused viewers to be more skeptical (and rightly so) of the video's content.
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Please ignore the whiners. This change is welcome and well overdue. Thank you!
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How are we supposed to tell now when we land on a junk video?
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Why is this necessary when creators already have the option to remove both likes and dislikes counts from their videos
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"If it helps, you can still dislike a video" 
No, that doesn't help. What use is a dislike if no one else can see it? It's pointless. Like it or not, this is effectively censorship. You're not removing the ability to dislike, you are just removing all meaning from it. Even if creators can still see their own dislikes, you have to think about this from a viewer perspective as well.

"We are making the dislike count private to protect our creators by reducing targeted dislike attacks on their channels." 
What a load of BS. You said it yourself we can still dislike, just now we cannot see how many. How does that prevent dislike attacks? If a group wanted to perform a "dislike attack" there is nothing in place here that is stopping them. The only thing it does is make dislikes effectively not matter. Why even have the dislike at all anymore? It's as much a tool to creators as it is to people watching. I could see a solution being removing dislikes if you get more than a certain number within a certain period on a channel that is of a certain (small) size, but making it private is not a great solution. In addition, creators can already disable the likes/dislikes on their videos, could you explain how that isn't a suitable solution to dislike mobs?

"because the count was not visible to them, we found that they were less likely to target a video’s dislike button to drive up the count"
If that's what you found then it's what you found, but I'd like to see a published report on this "experiment." It's surprising to me that not seeing the total dislikes would discourage others from also disliking. Your Rewind for example, it got so many dislikes because it was trash, not because people were jumping on a dislike bandwagon. I believe you would still have gotten at least 80% of the dislikes even with the count private.

"this change is about protecting our creators, especially those smaller creators and channels just trying to get started on YouTube." 
Come on YouTube, if this was really about protecting your creators, why disable it across the board? I could maybe understand if you disable it for smaller channels (<10k subs?) or even view based if the video has (<100k views?). But doing it your way screams to protect your advertisers. Not creators. At the very least this should be an opt-in to disable the dislikes on your channel, but as it sounds currently there isn't even a way to opt-out.

And what about protecting your users, the people watching content? The dislike ratio is useful for deciding if a video is worth the time to watch. It also helps people avoid scams. Since there are so many scams on YouTube that somehow avoid detection, the dislike is one of the only tools to inform users about this, especially if comments are disabled on a particular video. If you really want to protect people, start with removing all the spam and bot accounts and scam advertisements and scam videos that somehow continue to persist.

This seems like a 'band-aid' fix when you should really be going after the root problem. I'd also be interested in more "experiments" on how useful the users find the dislike button. The results may surprise you.

Right now you seem to claim this is in response to smaller creators being unfairly disliked. And sure, that may be a big problem occurring, but this is a using a sledgehammer for a little nail. Trying to take the angle of protecting your (smaller) creators is honestly insulting and a weak argument. If you truly cared, you'd allow special protections for smaller channels, but lift those protections once the channel (or video) gets sufficiently large enough. That way it won't seem like you're protecting giant corps and advertisers. But you won't do that because it was never about the small channels to begin with. Very bad move YT, I'd encourage you to rethink this situation and find an alternative solution.
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This really sucks, I like the dislike feature because ai can quickly and easily see if a video is worth watching. Especially when it is an instructional video or something I am trying to learn how to do, I can see the dislikes first to see if it actually works or not.
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Yep, this is a bad look. The downvote count is an important barometer of video quality, particularly when searching technical/tutorial content and doing away with it doesn't achieve your own stated goals. I'll not be renewing my Premium sub.
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the dislike count is a clear indicator of misleading or falsely advertised content, or outright scams.  If you take it away you actually support scammers. So youtube is pro-scammer now I guess. Shame on you.
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I am pretty disappointed in this change, I use youtube as a massive resource of how-to videos, scientific explanations and other entertaining content. The like/dislike ratio is the strongest signal I use across videos I find from search (the main way I use youtube), where I don’t have any context of that channel and I can get a very good indication of whether or not the video is a quality example of the topic at hand. 

In your post you seem to indicate the primary reason to do this is to prevent targetted dislike “campaigns”, but I find that explanation as either extremely misleading or extremely incompetent. I suspect the former so I doubt my next points will be illuminating to anyone but there are plenty of alternative methods to detect and stop mass disliking on videos. You can easily train a model to detect a type of trending or link-referred upspike in downvotes. I don’t believe your purported primary reasoning for this change from a technical point of view and I’m even further bothered that a potentially “we’re trying to do the right thing here and protect people” is being used as a misleading repositioning of a change purely meant to benefit youtube and their business model. 

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yay now scams are harder to detect! very cool!!!!!!
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I think this might cause the opposite effect. People will instead leave now leave more negative comments which will be more mean spirited. In other words, if it’s even possible for comments to get more negative, this will cause it. 

Plus it feels like censorship and/or protecting major brands. Those are the ones that get dislikes of any real significance.  If this only applies to smaller brands or was for the creators themselves to turn off and not a broad policy I’d believe this spin better.
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If this is about protecting smaller creators and not big brands, then why don't you make the dislike count public at 1 million views or so. That way if a video is disliked by the community, everyone will know and can report on it.

For example, a recent Nintendo video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNsGXJ6Cl00, where they introduced a price increase, now has 10x the number of dislikes as compared to likes which shows the community's response to the content.
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Please don't do this. Take a look at Russian domestic-targeted govt propaganda videos and their dislike counts, are you really trying to protect the likes of them too?
In other cases, the like/dislike count is an important indicator of relevance of the video in question, e.g. related to DIY activity and such
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oh great , one more way to silence public opinion
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Why not instead hide dislikes only for smaller creators then? Once you reach a certain threshold of views/subscribers, it becomes visible again.
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this is just to cover up that many people are frustrated with the current "acceptable" narratives, shame on youtube
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This is going to enable the spread of misinformation on your platform.  When users research a topic they will now have no signal to discern if the video is credible or not.  The like to dislike ratio is a meaningful signal that cannot be replaced by the like count alone, as this is the equivalent of a shopping site only showing you 5 star reviews.  Sounds pretty useless no?  This means that over time, users will turn to other platforms when researching a topic.  So in the short term, this change will placate whatever pet cause is driving it, but it will come at the expense of Youtube's long-term utility.
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easy fix is let creators choose to display the dislike count on their videos
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This is really bad. It's now going to be impossible to avoid scams, time wasters, filler content, bad quality videos, bad advice, bad tutorials etc.

Why was this not polled?

What you really mean for viewers is: "We understand that some of you have used dislikes to help decide whether or not to watch a video, we just don't care."
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This is pathetic.
The fact that extremely inappropriate content can be seen all over YouTube meanwhile they say they care about you mental health is laughable. I wonder why, after all this time, they choose to remove the like button. Perhaps they were worried about the overwhelming numbers of dislikes on their propaganda videos.
When a liar is caught lying they become very desperate.
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Horrible short-sighted decision. 

For many of us, we rely on the downvotes as a gauge to know what content is simply a waste of time. We also know and understand that a certain number of dislikes is to be expected. And it sucks that smaller channels get disliked by competing channels, but more often than not, it is a useful indicator of the quality of the content.

This decision simply invalidates and devalues the entire purpose of Likes and Dislikes! I will no longer care how many Likes a video has as it may have just as many or even more Dislikes!

And if you do this, you might as well get rid of the comments section as well cause that's where people will now show their dislikes for the content.

For me, this is a deal breaker. I would spend way too much time sifting through all the cruft finding quality videos. Make it optional for channels to display dislikes or lose a paying subscriber.
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This wont work. Also saying it is for "targeted dislike attacks", its intellectually dishonest.
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I logged in just to dislike your post
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Removing the dislike button will degrade the user experience.  Moreover, the dislike button can actually *protect* commercial interests—the ones that deserve to be protected—in some cases.

I saw a video that recommended against buying from a PC manufacturer. The problem with the video was it ignored the strengths of the manufacturer.  Also, it made superficial recommendations  to use other manufacturers without explaining why.   The video was a waste of my precious time and I disliked it.  Now this important signal will be hidden from other users researching this manufacturer.

If “dislike attacks” are a concern, give the content creator the ability to hide dislikes for a short time but restrict how often they can do it.

The binary all-or-nothing decision on dislike visibility to viewers goes too far.  Viewers will get nothing to spot low quality videos.

Do I get a discount on YouTube Premium for the degraded viewer experience?
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Then why are you not publishing the results of this "experiment" ?
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Propaganda must go on right ? Creators already have the control to disable the ratio but you will be the one who wanted to censor everything. This sort of bs will ruin this world. Congrats hope your kids enjoy this kind of rubbish.
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Q: This feels like censorship. For many, the dislike button was informative and a way to express feedback.
A: If it helps, you can still dislike a video, and creators will see this feedback privately in Studio if they choose to look up the dislike count metric. We are not removing the ability to dislike the content. 

I love how you guys ignored "censorship" because you know you are censoring people. I know that creator could still look at dislike count but you're still censoring OTHERS from seeing the dislike count. What was the actual reason for removing the dislike count, there is no way it was for "some" content creator's safety and "Feeling free to express themselves"? Just be honest, why did you remove it? You can clearly see the backlash, something is happening inside your HQ...
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Imo this change hurts viewers and you have not given a rationale for why it has to be implemented globally this way to reach your goals.

Dislikes are the fastest signal about the quality of the content for me. They are the only direct signal available to a viewer to communicate other viewers shouldn't waste their time like the voter did by watching. I certainly use them this way. E.g. bad/low quality tutorials or reviews pretty reliably have bad vote ratios.

If downvotes are disconcerting to some creators why not allow them to opt-in to this change instead of making it global? That way the signal stays intact for viewers as opt-in would be rare in the vast majority of youtube. They do not suffer from these controversies this change attempts to target.
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Dear Youtube, do you fail to see that by removing the visibility of the number of dislikes, you are preventing a useful way to sort low quality videos and misinformation? Just because a minority of online trolls abuse the system doesn't mean you do a revamp for all the sensible people. This is a big mistake, you must reconsider.
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If this post was a youtube video it would would only have dislikes
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I was not participating in the upvote downvote system especially when I saw people pile up on a video even if I agreed with the dislike. 

But with this change since I can't view the general sentiment and agree or disagree this will push me to actually press the dislike button more in order to make sure the message past.
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Hi Meaghan, thanks for your work on this. Given some of the concerns brought up and potential unintended consequences, might it be possible to extend an olive branch here and make everyone better off than the current proposal? In other words, a more Pareto efficient solution? I would propose you by default turn off the display of dislikes for all creators with less than 10k subscribers, and all videos with less than 10k views. You could also give all creators the ability to toggle the display of dislikes, so small creators can opt back in if they choose and large creators can opt out if they choose. This would seems to address the very valid concerns you have uncovered that harm the creative confidence of new creators while also ensuring the utility and accountability of the feature broadly remains. 

All the best! 


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You suck.  It'll be difficult but I will not be using your site anymore because of this.  Google is already useless unless you need to find business hours or maps, but now Youtube dislikes gone?  Nah G.
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Bad idea overall.
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I will be canceling my Premium subscription until the dislike number is returned.
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Ironically enough, the only thing this changes is now people dislike you.
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Best change ever. There was a fake tutorial online it had a lot of dislikes. Looked at comments, everyone said it was a scam. If it was not for the dislike count, someone could have fell for that scam.

I only can explain YouTube in 5 words.

YouTube. Is. All. About. Money.
Yeah they didn't even do anything about the sex bots that's proof. There are minors on YouTube that could click on their channel and start watching dirty videos while on the other end the person who created those spam bots, gain money.

It's either this.
Videos get disliked which "harasses" the content creator
Or misinformation which is way worse than getting dislikes on a video. (Jokes on you, google assistant, you said your enemy is misinformation :P) Btw what will a dislike do to you? Shoot you? Kill you?

It's an easy dilemma to come over with.
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Now this is really good, tho i haven't experienced the dislike thingy bots. But now at 100 subscribers after 3 years, i think its gonna come soon (the botting) also will the hiding impact the algorithm in some way?
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"May you always do for others, and let others do for you" ~Bob Dylan
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I welcome this change.  Because I have seen so many hundreds of users feel distraught over the down-voting vendettas since the replacement of the stars system with the up/down voting system.  I set my videos' votes to not visible because the votes are not representative of the videos's quality or benefit, merely of some users's chagrin over the issues addressed (YouTube channel termination appeals process and viability or Google Account access recovery viability, for example).
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While I can understand the reasoning, it's very frustraing that the massive amount of low quality click-bait videos can't be identified quickly now.
I constantly see nonsense videos about hardware leaks which turn out to not be true (Apple and Samsung devices are popular targets). The ratio of likes/dislikes is often a quick way of knowing if the content is going to be worth reaching the Wadsworth Constant or not.
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If you make a video with an opinion of course you will get downvote because people have different view on the issue you are smart enough to understand that and either not take offense and stick to what you believe or reevalute your view based on the feedback you got.
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At least I know what’s going to happen with my disliked videos…
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What time? because you said it's today but no option in setting. I try to open on browser, also in application but why is still viewable. Please activate today thank you!!!!
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Google keeps censoring everything, now removing the dislikes so people can't unite against things they dislike. The only ones that are going to look forward to this change is the white house and it's videos lol.
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A creator who has no subscribers receives a single down vote is the reason why the entire platform removes this counter because they might have hurt feelings? Wasnt this a discussion made before youtube was bought by google and dismissed? Yet with this change, the creator can still see that single dislike but the public cannot - so how does this protect the creator in any way? All this will do is leave people looking at the views of the video, and if it is low with no likes, will ignore the content and move on to the next video with a recognisable ratio showing the product is worth the viewer's time.

So if this is not for or benefits small creators, who is this change really for?
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I don’t believe a single word of this announcement.

You know people skim videos that are unhelpful or wrong or low quality (obvious when, e.g. you look for a cooking recipe and find 40 likes and 500 dislikes), and you know that means less advertising money.

If “protecting creators from harassment” was your priority you would simply analyze suspicious voting patterns and suspend votes to videos that have non organic dislike peaks.

Anyway you ruining my YouTube experience, the downvote button for me was crucial to skim terrible content, I’m not trading more of my time so you can shove me more ads.
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Censorship.  The public loses the most vital way to affirm misinformation campaigns.  The public cannot see the overall pleasure or displeasure with policy announcements.   Evil rises.
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This is an extremely user hostile change. The down vote count is extremely valuable information.
Even if the default is off, creators should be allowed to toggle it for their channels.
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How is someone suppose to know now if a video is helpful or not looking for tutorials, What we're all gonna waste our time watching some shady dude install a program without knowing if it's actually legit or not looking at the like/dislike ratio. or any kind of tutorials at all. This is actually really really stupid, all it does is promote scam and protect corporations from releasing garbage products.
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Yeah, you're lying.

Just like the large brands you serve have done. This is to protect companies who pay you, and that's it.

Fuck you you disingenuous scumbags. I can't believe you are creating this fake problem to hide your greed, no one is under any illusions about how your company comports itself.
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This is kinda bullshit. If you arent gonna release the data then I have to believe you are lying to us to protect celebrities and corporate accounts
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This is a blatant abuse of power. I've reported it.
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this change is unwarranted. i have saved a lot of time from the dislike button being there, specifically about untrue/fake videos, misleading titles, and a general understanding of if someones content is off. please dont take it away, if someones hurt by being dislike bombed thats so silly.
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Cancelling my subscription today, the censorship is deafening these days. Like most people, I want to know what is worth my time before I watch, the dislike to like ratio is perfect for that. A like count alone is truly worthless. This is clearly being done for reasons other than what is being mentioned.
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Awful. Just awful.
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"This feels like censorship" hit the nail right on the head, also extra points for pinning your "Platinum Product Expert" at the bottom.
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I respect your decision, but why should YouTube make this mandatory to all creators, even to ones who want public dislikes visible? There are definitely YouTubers who are fine with public dislikes, myself included, as it lets viewers know what the YouTube community thinks of the video. If you don't want public dislikes, turning them off is an option, otherwise there should be an option to keep them.
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A well thought experiment, I welcome the change. Informative and excellent write up, thanks!
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Many times the ratio has helped me know that a video doesn't improve and mention what it says it will... I will miss that data point..
I've read that channels can already turn off the visibility? Not sure what this achieves
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This is a stupid, dumb, horrible, no good, very bad idea.
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So much for "Don't be Evil." Despicable.
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This will absolutely make youtube less valuable as a user, and I'll be far less likely to take a chance on a video from any creators I don't recognize... which seems to hurt both the users and the creators. Please reconsider this
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I don't think this is a very available, accessible, or googley decision.

Open feedback is critical to discerning trash from treasure, and it's a critical tenant of Google's own workplace. Practice what you preach on every platform. 

You didn't make an informed decision. You are copying the crowd. Doing what Amazon did with their product review videos, Hackernews did with upvotes, and Twitter does with Hearts. NO CRITICISM ALLOWED ONLY CONSUME. The decision making of these tech companies who have mass incentive for engagement is always disappointing and selfish and they need regulation, fines, unions, and breaking up their monopoly.

I've already started archiving. I'm moving away from Youtube. Google has turned it into something else. Something spammy, covering my play controls with youtube TV ads, showing more ads all the time, creating dangerous alt-right wormholes, allowing their own platforms to be manipulated. They are irresponsible and raking in ad money from terrible people. Youtube glorifies terrible people with little to no moderation, creating a place for Racists with lots of money to spread ideas.

Google can shove it. I'm tired of their presence. I desperately need another everything because they are a monopoly and *I can't wait* until their power is wrenched from their hands.

Ad companies, it turns out, are terrible for humanity.
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Oh wow, also, why can't I upvote other people's contents? Why can't I downvote yours?

This... finite state machine only accepts positive feedback. How gut-wrenching it is to see Google stoop so low.
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What an awful change. Now the only way to express negative feedback is through the comments, which the creator has direct control over. Now the people have absolutely no power to express any opinion. Good luck mr/ms PR person. Your going to need it
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Complete trash.  The only reason to remove them is because you know that there's a public swell against particular ideologies and arguments.  This helps no small creators(you don't even care about them).
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Not helpful. This only helps many "creators" who spread misinformation because no one knows this is helpful or not. Dislikes are the main reason how people know it's a bad video.
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this is not a good change at all!!
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id rather have to use google plus again than this
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Terrible decision. If a video has a negative reputation with 1000 dislikes and 10 likes, this turns it into positive with those 10 likes. This same flaw is already present for years with comments where it did not show dislikes, where many terrible comments and lies would still get a few likes and make it look like people approve it.
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Listen, long time youtuber here. Dislike button is critical. Not only that, but because dislikes are hidden until you click a video. I have an extension that shows me dislike to like ratio on video previews. This lets me know when a video is clickbait or wrongful content. THIS WILL ruin my experience.
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Thanks sie
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Censorship plain and simple. With any luck, these kind of actions are gonna drive an alternative to these Big Tech platforms pretty soon.
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Why not remove the down vote count from the Q & A section also? There is more down votes than upvotes. You said the data shows this and that but never presented the evidence to backup what you are saying, this happens too often, talk talk but no receipts. The hypocrisy is glaring here, not everyone will like a particular video IT’S THEIR CHOICE AND OPINION, you should not censor people just for disagreeing with you. Only showing the good and not the bad is NOT REALITY.
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awesome . we new youtuber and really hard to get view and sudden one dislike , kinda annoyance  but  its okays.
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Sorry but this is wrong. Channel owners have the power to turn off the number counter but it affects both and so it should apply in this case too, turn off both or neither. Like/dislike is a useless left over feature as it has no effect on the position of a video in search, so you are giving it more influence than it actually has. It is not a personal management thing for the viewer.

I have extremely rarely used the thumbs down myself as if I dislike something I move on and forget about it.
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Hello can you please help me how to improve my channel 2018 I create my own youtube channel until now I don’t have subscribers & monetize how can I do to more bigger subscriber
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If you don't use the Dislike function, THEN YOU FUCKING DON'T UNDERSTAND IT!
OR HAVE SEEN THE MILLIONS OF DISLIKES YT HAVE REVOVED FROM DADY BYDEN! 

F YOU SIMP!
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I unsubcribe on this topic because i got email notification every hours. Not yet roll out today but i check at night if it's working. Thanks for hearing a small voice for small creators
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I dislike this post
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This is censorship, plain and simple. Fire Susan as she has been making rather poor decisions for the end-users.
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people will just not bother using YouTube client and login since the reason I'm login in is so i can like and dislike things to help others not mislead  by video. So probably people will just immediately report and since YouTube cs known to be biased when reviewing report so people will not even bother reporting and start looking other platform. You're doing great job at de-platforming your community in my opinion. Remember opinion do matters in world with free system and yours give reason people to thinking more critically.
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One of the biggest problems is knowing if a video is clickbait or not.
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I second a lot of what people are mentioning here. Even though the message seems to indicate that this helps creators, I think it hurts both them and their audience.

I listen to a lot of music covers, and the dis/like ratio is probably the most important factor for deciding whether to skip content or continue. Lots of other forms of content have misleading titles (episodes e.g.), and this feature significantly helped distinguish. I'll probably spend more time looking for negative comments instead to screen videos, and perhaps people will have more of an incentive to post negative feedback. (Not sure if that's within the plan or not).

It also robs the very amazing creators who achieved astonishingly low dislike ratios. They probably want the world to see what has now become private.

I'll still probably use the platform (in a less effective way), but I think this was a mistake.
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As of right now, Maeghan, the community manager has 62 thumbs up and 580 thumbs down. This is representative of how many people do not want this change and google will be ignorant to push forward with this. However what can we do, Youtube doesn't have any competitors and we will be forced to take it up the tail pipe. Eventually we ( the product ) will move on from google because of this behavior.
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Strong dislike
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Yeah, I don't buy this one bit. Another bad move, YouTube.
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Thank you..
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Phew good change! Now nobody will remember the dislikes on YouTube Rewind 2021
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I clicked on a link from the 'contact us' page that has no way to actually contact you in a realistic way.  I can send a fax or write a letter. Get real.  I then followed a link for the 'community help forum' which led me to a faq page (support.google.com).  Which leads me to wonder if you know what the word 'forum' actually means.  You clearly don't want actually feedback or people to find a way to reach you in any meaningful way.   After a few more clicks hidden below I found it, with only a couple hundred replies, clearly no one even knows this exists. 

The entire reason for this is just from your recent announcement of the removing the ability to see dislikes.  Who cares if edge cases have people trying to reach a new high score (which I do not believe).  It is very helpful for the vast majority of videos to know what is going to tell us what we want to know as the viewer.  That is the entire point.  For instance, if I look up a tip for my computer I don't want to be scammed because I didn't know they had comments turned off and I couldn't see no one liked this video, 1 upvote and 3k downvotes might have been a flag.  Or as you suggested in the announcement video, that, as the viewer, I might have a better time finding the best video for a particular issue I'm having, like how to hammer a nail in without realizing I clicked on the one showing how to do it with a shoe and it has a bad like ratio for a reason, that as the viewer it would be nice to see.  You say that data showed that having the information available to your customer didn't change their viewing patterns.  That doesn't answer the question, you skipped right past it.  I may have clicked a video to watch, hence getting your data to know that I watched it.  I may have even watched the entire thing before looking at the likes, but they would still have an impact at that point.  I would then question if what I just watched about hammering with a shoe was actually the best method, or perhaps I should check out another video before I get to work.  

I get it, the big companies pay the big bucks and want to cry about how their terrible announcement got some downvotes, they could learn from that, but no, I had to reach a new high score in downvotes.  Everyone has a voice, and they all matter, but apparently not the people who watch videos, who cares what they say.  In fact, I want to make it near impossible to hear that.  The people that are the only reason we make money... nope, their voices don't matter at all.  

It was bad enough you removed its impact from comments allowing terrible comments to show as if people actually liked them even though the ratio is 1 - 100.  I know I don't have to give you examples of terrible comments.  Get it together youtube, you are forgetting your entire purpose.  I would love to know where you got the data that as a creator I don't feel safe if people can see that most people don't like the video I uploaded.
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Hey Google - way to be distracted by nonessential issues.

Publicly visible dislike counts are a quick barometer on whether the content is worth your time.

I can see how it might affect small content creators but if "creators" don't want feedback on their videos
  • they could not post bad or poor quality content
  • disable comments
  • develop a sense of humor?
  • grow up, learn and iterate?
This smells like "virtual coddling" but in the spirit of change let's look at constructive solutions
  • provide a means to solicit feedback from targeted audiences (i.e. a/b test their content before making it public)
  • provide a mechanism to allow content creators to choose between enabling likes / dislikes  counts altogether. i.e. both counts are visible or neither is available. If that's not possible then let the content creator decide whether public likes / dislikes should be displayed.
  • rate-limit dislikes / require authentication. Can you come up with an algorithm to detect down-vote attacks?
For inquiring minds
  • What was the time frame of the data set analyzed? Did you go back pre-COVID?
  • Can you make the data set public so we can run our own analytics?
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How will I be able to know if certain vids aren't scam or wrong(in case of checking technical things/tutorials for example)? You guys are protecting yourself and your rich buddies, it doesn't help me in any way as an average user. Creators can already turn off votes. This site with time gives me less and less options it's not how progress should work. Your gaslighting PR talk doesn't work anymore, even average Joe can see right through it. And if you concede that your almighty "alghoritm" is making videos worse (which it does, coz every creator lately says things like "do things that algoritm likes", because they know it's more important than making good video). Instead making easy access for videos of worth you do easy access for worst videos that will make your advertisers happy and your pockets full.
Quit preaching about "mentall welness" you have worst filth avaible to kids and nobody bats an eye.
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- Especially those smaller creators and channels just trying to get started on YouTube.

Then why don't YouTube show dislike count if a channel have subscriber count above 10k..
There must be a threshold.Anyway this is one of the worst decision from YouTube.
I like the intention to support small creators but this beyond my understanding
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This change is right in time for the dumb rewind video which keeps breaking the record for the most disliked video on YouTube. If this comment gets 10000 downvotes, I'll make an extension to bring back the dislike button with count.
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An outright user-hostile change, sold with totally fabricated motivations. Absolutely contemptible behaviour.

Even if this was about protecting small content creators (and I would bet everything I own that it is not), then surely it's still more important to meet the needs of your users first, no? The dislike count gives users important information, and is a natural way for us to communicate with each other. You're now removing that voice.
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All this achieves is giving people the ability to spout complete garbage and incite drama with absolutely no real way for the community to share their thoughts on that.

I somehow doubt this is about protecting creators, but whatever. I don't imagine this unfortunate decision will be amended no matter what reasonable arguments are presented.

If this was about protecting small creators specifically, than make dislikes invisible only on small channels. Seems like a good middle ground.
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This negatively impacts YT as a platform for educational and tutorial content. A visible like to dislike ratio helps DIY and repair audiences sort good advice from bad or harmful practices. 

Now, on your model, a video about putting water in your car's gas tank is indistinguishable from a newer, good tutorial on octane ratings. Your analysis was done poorly. Reflect that this is a mistake and reverse this decision.
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Absolutely disgraceful. Lies upon lies.
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Where is dislike button under this post? Horrible decision that makes it impossible to quickly understand quality of a video.
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I truly think this is a massive mistake. Dislikes on Youtube are one of the few checks the community has on misinformation, hateful content, and just garbage from video farms. Hiding this feature will only make Youtube more susceptible to pushing questionable content. Big 👎
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In democracy, when you vote you've the right to KNOW the voting results. 
but now YouTube wants us not to care about others people opinion about the content, right?
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I haven’t disliked a video in a long time. It’s pretty useless except as a meme or a way to say “less content like this”. Good move. Of course the extremely online people who like to bark at everything that moves are against removing one of their tools of harassment.

Anyone using the dislike count as a way to gauge trustworthiness has failed right out of the gate. I’d be a right-wing nut job who thinks vaccines are a conspiracy if I let dislike counts affect my opinion.
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I dislike this post but have no option other to upvote...
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Cool, very cool(no). After that we will have a lot of scam going around youtube, i suggest doing this feature turnable, and it will be disabled automatically so we can know if person potentially wants to scam in his videos.
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Why aren't you answering about how this benefits corporations and political figures? Why not to disable it only for small channels if it is the intent? Why aren't you answering about how this will benefit scams? How having the same number of views regards of the dislike count change the fact that people use that to know if they should believe the video or not?
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You will regret this later.
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Great. I feel so discouraged looking at dislikes on my vids.
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No discouragement
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You tube not video upload failed
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There is no dislike attack, people dislike video if they don't like the video. Very simple.
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It's like you're trying as hard as possible to imitate the CCP. I've had YouTube red since it's release, now I am canceling and looking into ad blockers.
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Mistake! 

You take away the only way to gauge if a video about lets say Fixing a bad tire , is good quality or 30 mins of non sense . 

You want to appeal to advertisers not protect users...
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Certainly not about the dislikes on YouTube Rewind 2018, big companies content farming, and censorship. Why would they do that? Oh yeah, they're TOTALLY not a big company themselves that only cares about their Advertisement Revenue.
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Just like many creators, I don't like this, and I've been on this platform since day 1 basically. Your taking away a feature many rely on and you are clearly blind to see the value it has to your users. Within the educational field the dislike count is one of the only ways to accurately gauge if a video is going to answer your questions and apparently you just don't get it.

But we are taking away only the counter for dislikes, you can still voice your feedback to creators
Yes, we are aware, but that's not the problem most people are talking about and it doesn't fix the problems you are creating with this change.

You can still see the amount of likes and use that instead to see if a video will be a good source of education
Again, this only makes things worse. Seeing the number of likes does very little without also seeing how many dislikes there are. A video can have a few hundred likes and look like a good source of education, unless you knew it also has more dislikes than the likes it has, but when you don't see that counter, you won't know. It makes bad educational content less easy to spot without simply watching the video and wasting your time.

But why don't you just check the comments then?
Because creators can remove comments, dislikes they can't. A creator with bad intent or who makes educational content that either gives false information or tries misleading people, can simply remove any negative comments or comments that point out the misinformation or misleading instructions to other users, simply because they don't want those comments to affect their views. Again you are not fixing much with this, but merely creating more problems.

But if it's a creator with bad intent, or who spreads misinformation, you should just report them to us so we can do something about it!
Well, I am a Dutch creator and I've been reporting a Dutch channel getting about 10-100K views per video, I've reported most of their recent videos because they question anything around the current pandemic and they are spreading lies and misinformation that many people believe as the truth judging by their comments. This channel is also a hotbed for people who express hate towards our politicians openly and attracts them in the comments, where they rile each other up in spreading even more misinformation. I reported multiple of their videos over the course of a month now, yet nothing has been done about it, or even worse there isn't even a proper option in your report form in case a creator spreads misinformation and lies surrounding any controversial topic nor is the content labeled misleading by YouTube. I had to choose a random option in the report form, because there is no option for the problem described above, a problem which today is absolutely rampant on your platform and you know it. So don't tell us we can report channels, if your report system is broken and apparently doesn't properly work, or do you support the spread of misinformation and lies? This channel also removes negative comments or ones that question their words, the only last guidance a viewer had to determine how factual their content is was the visible dislike count.

But we are simply doing this to protect the small creator!
How? Please, tell me. If this was really about mental health for creators, then why shift a problem from a dislike count towards the comments instead? Comments which any person can freely type what they want, things that will hurt or affect the mental health of a creator a lot more than a dislike? How is this not just shifting the problem elsewhere and potentially making it even worse?

Also if this is to help smaller creators when they are getting started on YouTube (which is only a tiny fraction of all creators), then why disable it across the entire platform and not just for channels with under 10K subcribers for instance. Make the change affect the smaller creators you are apparently caring so much about, while not affect the larger majority of creators and users who clearly don't agree with this change?

But a creator can remove negative comments when they don't want those to be seen on their video, so if they receive more negative comments now, they can just choose to not publicly show those.
Yes they can, after they've seen and read the comment. This one proves this change will not help a creators mental health, instead people who want to voice their negativity will now do it in the comments, and you will have to choose to either allow them or deal with them and remove them, which to me sounds a lot more stressful than receiving a dislike. It also proves the other point, if creators can simply remove negative comments, they can do the same for comments that point out misinformation.

But believe us! We are doing this purely to help the small creators!
I still don't fully buy this, maybe this is your genuine thought right now, but most of us simply can't ignore that even if that is true, there are other parties which will benefit a lot more of this than the few small creators you talk about that are allegedly affected by this. Big corporate channels spouting out the same cookie cutter formula content people are losing braincells over watching and thus getting a ton of dislikes, they will love this new feature. Government channels spewing propaganda on your platform (which there are a lot of, and I'm not even from the US, I'm talking worldwide), they will love having their dislike count hidden so they can persuade more people in believing their nonsense. And then we haven't even talked about scammers or other people of wrong intent yet. Just like most creators, I see far larger parties benefitting from this change than those few small creators who get targeted dislike attacks, and it's exactly the channels that most regular people think take away the essence of what once was YouTube, the website that once had the slogan "Broadcast Yourself". All this corporate nonsense we are getting bombarded with is downvoted for a reason, many people are done with it and want the regular people to be the center point of the platform again, not the big players who have the most money. Money talks, and however you spin it, this change seems to be very beneficiary to these larger corporate and government channels, which people are clearly disliking for good reasons. This is something I can't ignore, it's too big to just label this being a change "for the small creators".

But what about creator's mental health then?
If you honestly care so much about mental health, then why did you add a feature to all creator dashboards that tells you specifically how good or bad your last video did compared to your previous ones? A thing we now all know hugely affects how YouTube promotes ones content. Every time a creator logs in they see this, even though it says very little about the video itself. The video could've been great, but the topic just wasn't as popular and thus your dashboard tells you the video performs less well than your last videos. There is no option to turn this off, and it's a relatively new feature in the history of YouTube, which ultimately can affect a creators mental health and stress level in varying degrees, both positive and negative, you know just like the public dislike counter does. If you honestly cared so much about our mental health, then why are features like that rolled out?

YouTube, your userbase has spoken. Your update video has about 4 times the dislikes than it has likes, which this time is not because of a targeted attack, this is the voice of the creators on your platform, you know the ones who provide your platform with content to make income by placing ads on them. Not only that, but the comment section for once is one where almost everybody agrees with each other, which is rare on YouTube these days. However seeing almost all creators speak out against this change in the comments shows how much the creators agree they don't like this. Your Twitter update received the same kind of backlash, creators being mad over this change, I haven't been able to spot more than 5 people positive about this on your Twitter post, but hundreds who are against it instead. Your update here is also receiving a lot of backlash from creators in the comments, maybe take the hint YouTube! I've seen large and small creators voice their concerns around this change, or just saying they don't like it altogether.

"Some vulnerable people are getting scammed by phones, so even though the majority sees the positives of phones and uses them a lot, we've decided to stop selling phones to our customers. Please understand, this is for your own safety."

We are the creators, and if we largely agree we don't like this, then how are you doing this for us, the creators? We, the creators have now largely spoken, please YouTube, just listen for a change.

- written by a creator with 75K subscribers
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Also really dislike this change. One of the primary ways I use YouTube is to find step-by-step solutions for technical software issues. The dislike button was extremely helpful in showing whether a video's solution even worked for most people or not.
Please reconsider!
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Huge mistake! The Like and Dislike count are extremely important metrics that I use when watching YouTube.  This YouTube censorship needs to stop!
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nah,also dislike its protect to buyer!! the buyer its know that is a scam or not!! and tutorials!sometimes there is also a virus in the application on tutorials.Also the clickbaits!and etc!
please dont remove! just remove the a dislike bots/troll spaming dislikes!!
also please stop the youtube shorts because there so many cringe contents that make me dislikes the video and the youtube shorts so many from tik tok or etc :(
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hmm i guess users should just leave boo's in the comments then? I agree with many users, that dislikes helps  users assess what they might want to watch just as much as likes.
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The main reason why dislikes work for most people - to see if the videos are actually useful 
For example, a tutorial how to make “ice” 
If the video has more dislikes than likes, it means that the video is useless and you don’t waste your time (and it is very important) 
But what if we don’t see dislikes? 
Than you waste your time watching how they are trying to make ice with hot water and learn absolutely nothing 

I made up this example, but just put another important thing instead of “ice”  that you need to look a tutorial for and you will get my point youtube team 

So please listen to your audience and don't fix what is already working
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No one asked for this please, I avoided so many bad videos and scams because of dislike button which gave a instant information

Removing this crucial button is doing the opposite effect
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Whether is it curating quality or the truth or whatever, this is a switch from bottom up to top down. Now (since total up votes is more a metric of how exposed something is instead of how good it is), the only measure we have is what youtube tells us. They decide what is good and they decide what is true and they decide what people should see and they decide everything.
This is nothing but a shift from "youtube" to "theirtube".  I care about the opinions of other viewers.  I don't care about the opinions of Susan Woljcicki or other youtube employees.
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Awful idea. How else can I avoid videos that are unhelpful or bad?

I rely on "thumbs down" to avoid many, many videos that have bad explanations on their DIY tutorials, while thumbs up helps me know when it's good!

This is insane: YouTube, do NOT implement such an awful policy!
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It is less common with front page recommended content with millions of views, but dislike is an enormous time saver when searching for anything out of the ordinary, foreign language, or extremely specific.  People downvote bad content, whether it is due to being a crude copy of an original unenforced by YouTube or just spam.
If you're determined to go along with this course of action, please allow an escape hatch in the form of opt-in to displaying this.  Buried in settings if nothing else.
I am currently paying for a family plan and will be re-evaluating the impact of this on YouTube in December.  You're just making it harder to avoid garbage.
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I hold a belief that such a decision should be left up to the general audience/users of YouTube to state if the dislike count should be left within. 
[Perhaps leave it as a public poll, as opposed to the "experiment" conducted which may be flawed due to sampling errors or poor experimental designs]
Additionally, the excuse that other platforms refrain from the utilization of a dislike count does not imply that it is a right choice and should not be utilized as a explanation or excuse YouTube has found to push it's agenda. [Monkey see, Monkey do??]
The ending statement of "I think you're going to get used to it pretty quickly" by Matt Koval was terrible in my opinion as it felt as though users are not provided with an option and should just "suck it up" and accept what YouTube sets in place for its userbase. [I am not discrediting his points as opposed to highlighting the poor choice of words utilized in a contextually debatable issue]
If YouTube sets itself on the current track and refuses the opinions and feedback of its users, that is a sign of blatant disregard towards its consumers and it would be a good sign for competitors to set in thereby stumping out the "ego" which YouTube may still think it holds.
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Please revert this decision or at least make this optional
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Please do not remove the dislike count. There are tons of fraud, wrong, and misleading video which exist on your platform. Dislike was one of the last remaining ways to see authenticity of a video as fraud video creator tends to remove comments. Learning community will be impacted by this as there are so many video with wrong details. Please revert this stupid policy of yours. As you tube is making it harder and harder for people express. Instead of fixing the bot and spam issue you guys are removing the actually relevant thing which lot of user used.
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This at the very least should be optional. I, alongside, many other creators, are very disappointed in this decision and would like to see this reverted back sooner rather than later.
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Censorship clear as day, you may call it what you want but not everyone is stupid.
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How am I supposed to vet new content and gauge mass public consensus quickly? Removing this will ultimately result in less views for newer creators from me as I am unlikely to waste my time without a visual confirmation of quality content. This is like removing movie scores on rotten tomatoes or imdb and making them all 10/10 or 100%. This is a mistake and for me crosses the threshold of your invasion into my viewing experience. If you don't reverse this decision I know I will be using this platform a whole lot less.
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Where's the proof that there was dislike bomb to small content creator, who made good content, not animal abusing content, scams, gambling targeted for kids where kids will lose etc.?

Without like/dislike ratio in public, then nobody will know if video is bad content. If content creator will not turn off comments, then in comments there will negative stuff instead of dislikes. 

Of course rich people do what they can to try control poor people. Technically poor people outnumber rich people, but some of them are brainwashed and who aren't they don't time to fight against rich people.

Yeah of course it's about mental health of content creators. /s (maybe for corporate content creators), When demonetization makes content creators stressed, or if video is too kid friendly. 

And then there are ads with adult content on.
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I salute the goal, but this is absolutely the wrong way to go about it. What other ways were considered? YT is hardly the only site on the internet that has this problem. The obviously better way would be to give creators the OPTION to show dislikes, that way most of YT can still have this useful indicator. There are other approaches YT could take but this optional one seems obviously best.
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Just letting you know that I have unsubscribed from youtube premium and will actively be looking for youtube alternatives for content consumption (and creation in the future ?). While the dislike button has potential for abuse there is also potential for abuse by having no feedback mechanism. There are tons of DIY/informative videos on youtube where the information is wrong and can hurt viewers, what happens when someone unsuspecting installs a virus on their computer or gets scammed ? What happens when someone buys a product whose quality is extremely poor ? Does youtube take responsibility ? No, because you are a platform and had no role. I don't mind if you want to monitor the dislikes for abuse but this is taking it too far. I also don't mind creators manually switching off the bar for their videos.

At the end of the day you are manufacturing consent for your users as per the demands of your corporation friends and advertisers. You want a happy place where everything is happy and joyful with no abuse and attacking but alas that is not the world in which we live. Have fun and make profits hacking the brains of the viewers you "say" you care about for your advertisers and corporate friends.

Peace out!
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Nothing shall destroy the countless bubbles that create profits for Google!
The reason given here is something that may be a problem for a very limited number of videos but removing that information, that extremely useful information for potential viewers, for everyone will make YouTube a much worse place overall. Much more like Facebook, which have been avoiding a thumbs down feature for exactly the same reason: not hurting the bubbles that create profits for Facebook.
We the viewers, and the content creates are just the little minions which need to push the buttons in exactly the way which Google finds to be most profitable.
Oh you dislike that decision? Feel free to push the dislike button but nobody will get to see how many others share your thought!
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Those things are stupid excuses, true harassment are in comments most of time, and oh wait, you can block comments even :0 

A clickbait creator wouldn't "learn about seeing their dislikes count, so yeah, your censoring people's opinion
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The dislike button is there for us to know if a video has great content in it, or it has topics of conversation that is generally agreed with, or it is overall a video worth my time to watch.
Removing the dislike button is a form of censorship, and I do not approve of this. We all deserve to know whether or not the videos we click on are worth our time; and the dislike button was the perfect tool to measure that.
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Do you have plans to overhaul the DMCA system to protect small YouTubers as well? There are dozens of cases of people falsely claiming videos based on less than 10 second clips of audio, and only the creator is punished for disputing the claim, which discourages many of them from trying. Ideally, the claimant should also be issued a Copyright Strike if they falsely claim a video, since this feels unfairly biased towards the claimant. I once had Activision falsely claim an almost 2 hour analysis on the Prototype games due to me using the in-game opening cinematic, which they claimed as me stealing the gameplay trailer, even though I was commentating on the footage and was allowed to use it under fair use laws.
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Add the ability to enable the dislikes.
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I'm going to make this as clear as possible Google: your whole idea here is incredibly stupid and ignorant. You're not going to fix any problems of harassment like that. You know how I know that? Because people can just harass them in the comment section instead. If this goes through officially I might as well cancel my YouTube Premium subscription, because there's no point in having it if you just decide to quit using the platform. On top of that I'll make sure to use ad block if I ever use it again, or use any other Google products for that matter. Out of all the ridiculous changes, this one is genuinely harmful, especially to the ignorant crowd of people who don't understand when they're being scammed. Besides, individual users have the OPTION to remove likes and dislikes already, so why take away a YouTuber's right to choose if they WANT to have their likes and dislikes hidden?
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That is a terrible decision!
Only showing the positive feedback and hiding the negative one is not transparent. You either show both likes and dislikes, or none. Showing just the likes count skews people's perception of the quality of the content.
Scams and fake news can be identified based on the dislike count. This change will make more people fall victim to those and you will be directly responsible.
Your reasoning is to stop "dislike attacks" towards small creators, but those can be protected in many other ways. What you decided to do will have a massive negative effect, far greater than the good it is allegedly meant to do.
The dislikes are there to warn people from poor or misleading content. By hiding the count, you expose masses to scams, conspiracy theories, fake news, etc. Yes, videos can be reported, but let's be honest, most of them are never removed. The dislike count serves as a crowd-sourced public display of content quality, now you are removing this important part of the transparency.
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This is just ridiculous. The owners of this company write software and censor the content that makes people come to their site. If this was actually a free market we'd have seen a competitor take YouTube out already. They hold the market with talons and manipulate the thoughts of people. If you work for this company than you are inherently an evil person.
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Notice the FAQ reply doesn't even deny that it is censorship... This is messed up YouTube.
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Terrible update. Please reverse this update. No one wanted this! This update is just dumb
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Ok sir Thanks
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Sir support my youtube video and viral my video all over the world plzzz sir support me
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this is bad as there are a lot of scams on youtube the dislike number was a fast and easy way to find out if something is a scam or not, curation can only go so far in helping, please dont remove it.
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Couldn't be more tone deaf, you are taking away peoples ability to publicly disagree while saying that its to give everyone a voice, you really cant talk yourself out of this one no matter what excuses you give to everyone its just wrong
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Thanks for protecting big corporation media. This will soon be a algo spoon fed netflix like watch show site.
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This is what monopoly looks like.
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I am very dissapointed in the choice to censor the dislike buttons. They have been very useful for knowing if certain tutourial videos were actually real or just a scam, i feel bad for all the people that will now have a harder time figuring out if its safe or not to download and follow the tutorial.

I feel like this energy could have been spent on removing all the bots from the comments and all the inappropriate profile pictures and names that are on every single video over 100k views on youtube.
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என் சமுகம்
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Again. There is no fucking reason why to removing the dislike button. The reason is because of scams, misleading tutorials, and bad advice. Also people can't tell if the tutorial they are watching is good or not..
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This is so problematic. People with bad intentios will use this new rule to spread scams, fake news and
conspiracy theories on the platform. The viewer now has no chance to see if the content is malicious.
You put people at risk.
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this is the stupidest thing i have ever read...
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How about protecting the Users, how are we supposed to know what to watch ? there are a ton of tech youtubers, and some of them could be a bunch of pieces of complete shit suggesting stuff like deleting "system32" (like that never happened). Fake news, scammers, criminals everyone protected by Youtube , but the users , the users are the ones who'll get really fucked by this change.

 I personally know people who think that Bill Gates is killing kids in Africa with vaccines, we're all gonna die from vaccines and vaccines have "chips" inside. Where did they get this info ? tiktok and facebook , so now youtube is enabling these people, thanks a whole lot YOUTUBE !
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Honestly it would’ve been better if you guys gave the ability to individually remove the dislike count because there are so many older videos that represent misinformation that are not taken down yet. I hope you would either take down misinforming content according to user reports or at least leave the comments section untouched since these 2 options are the only things that makes the user experience better. Plus there are so many debate videos up on the platform that are very mich dependent on the like/dislike ratio and so those kind of videos are now basically no good anymore.
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I'm actively looking for an alternative video platform now. I wish you all the worst, YouTube.
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Any video I can send that video is blocked but what is the The reason I don't know any one help me please
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Glad to see that you are committed to your censorship agenda. You are just getting sick of seeing the ratio for your liberal BS. How close do you want to get to being state run media?

Youtube was much better before google bought you now you are just junk
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Hilarious! You can only upvote the change. But not downvote.
So, next you will be whining that some videos have thousands of negative comments.
Are you going to censor the comments then?
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You suppress smaller content creators by rolling out changes that punish them.  It's almost 2022 and corporations and large creators are given no consequence for filing a false DMCA claim to get a video removed. Small channels are here one day then gone because of all the mess you've done to ensure that the algorithm doesn't play fair.

Do you honestly hear yourselves?

You've given large creators, corporations, and advertisers immeasurable freedoms. The rules don't apply to them. You've allowed criminals on here to have a platform and a career. From predators that prey on minors, to content lifehack farms that risk or take people's lives, and those who've scammed vulnerable individuals out of their money. The list goes and on.

You say all of this is for small creators but it doesn't even benefit them. It benefits the same, damn large creators, corporations, and advertisers you bend backward to protect. At the end of the day, we everyday users lose out.

You have the audacity to be this obtuse, out of touch, and condescending.
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This is only going to make it easier for scammers and more nefarious folks to do evil things with the platform. Do you not see how unpopular this change is among a vast majority of your userbase? This effectively censors the ability for people to gauge the popularity and/or quality of any given video. It's like selling a product and disabling reviews! Especially worse that content creators can filter out comments they don't like. This is an incredibly moronic change that should be reverted.
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If a video has Disabled Comments, the Dislike Ratio is the only way for the viewer to realise if the video is fake, misleading, harmful etc. 
 This decision is arbitrary, authoritarian and completely wrong.
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Yt not fooling anyone with this, its to protect big corp etc. Where most of their revenue comes from. The fact is their lying about it pretending its for content creators makes it sting even worse I’d have more respect for them if they said, “ were doing it for the money fuck you lol” the PR team have their work cut out for them. I mean how do they expect us to check the validity or accuracy of Yt videos if were ignorant to the information ourselves. YouTube this is very dangerous think of the consequences if far right and terrorist organisations promoting content, able to remove comments that speak negatively about the viewer it will sound like what they’re saying is gospel, to the point where REAL attacks can happen, I’m seriously worried, there’s gonna be an even more polarised world with this implementation.
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i dislike this post
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I have a question, why? This does not help creators at all. It is still visible for the creators, so it does not "improve mental health" of the creators. The only creators that will like this update are scammers. This is horrible. I hope this change won't be done at all.
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YouTube This is really Dangerous. A lot of people use the Dislike button to Inform them of the credibility of a video. With the endless amount of videos on Yt how can you distinguish fact from fiction? What’s most worrying is that a lot of people will become indoctrinated with political ideologies, without knowing if this is wrong or not because they have no measure to judge the video on, especially if Creators can remove comments and Censor what the viewers think to only show positive comments. Rise in Far right attacks and extremism WILL occur because impressionable teenagers wont know if its wrong. People could die as a result of this decision. Don’t give me the Yt checks videos or reports them Bs. , how will someone know to report it if they don’t know if its wrong or not? But whats the point in saying this if you have already chosen bucks over bodies? You really aren’t fooling anyone with the scripted replies. Just because you deny it doesn’t mean its not true. I’d advise anyone to cancel their Yt premium subscriptions.
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I don't really want to remove Dislikes from my channel, because I have nothing to hide.
Give us a choice......
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Why is the 'dislike' count hidden again?! It's the second time, please stop using my account to test this stupid 'feature'. Stop trying to become TikTok and go solve the NSFW ads issues.
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This is a horrible decision.  This is a form of censorship and makes it harder for us as content creators to see what people like and dislike.  This is preventing us from exercising our first amendment rights to free speech and free expression.  YouTube, if you keep doing stuff like this, you are going to lose people.  At least give us the option to make dislikes visible on our videos, is it so hard to have a simple and easy solution for once?  This way, the people who are hurt by the dislike count don't have to see it on their videos, and the ones who want it can keep it.
How long until you remove mandatorily comments because a few are "hurtful" towards a few people?  You're on a slippery slope here.
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This change is poorly thought out and potentially dangerous, posing both a possibility for financial as well as physical damage from users following misleading tutorials.

Why not make seeing dislikes a user preference for the viewer? Make it default off, that way small creators will not see dislikes if they don't look for them, but viewers can still enable them on their end for use in detecting scams that may involve misinformation, malicious 'advice', or deprecated/insecure solutions, particularly in regards to niche software tutorials where the raw number of views/likes is not a useful metric for judging said tutorial.
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i dont like this decision just bring the dislike count back i dont want to try to see any negative comment about scam videos if the creator of those scam videos deletes them
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I can't see dislikes,I want to see dislikes please help me
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Dislikes attack are byproduct of the content creator engagement usually these are people that thrive in toxic interaction with other content creators.  Look like these are the people you want to protect.
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COWARDS!!! 👎👎👎👎👎👎 Everyone gets an A. Everyone gets a participation trophy. Anything negative is triggering and traumatizing. Universal basic income for everyone! EVERYTHING is a disability! Hold everyone's hand, because REALITY is just too much to freaking bare. This is ANOTHER example of the dumbing down of society. When a REAL crisis actually happens, that's when the REAL disaster goes down and NO ONE will know HOW to recover from it because you will have them HOPELESSLY emotionally incapable of facing reality. But we know that's the ultimate plan, for them to be completely dependent on YOU.
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This has nothing to do in protecting the creators. This is to protect brands and sponsors against bad press and been obvious how bad the content is. This is a pure commercial decision.
It is a complicated topic when an ad appears in a "disliked" video.

If you want to be fair, when someone hides de dislike count (which is a direct action of the creator) the likes must be hidden too.

One critical point, your study has flaws. Can you share your data with the community? Did you experimented with high count disliked videos and checked if people clicked on dislike? Or you just monitored good videos and see if people would dislike it? What was the size of your sample? Did you assigned a control group? Did you inverted the dislikes/likes on a video to see the people reaction? I am highly interested in the metrics and the method used.

Another point that frustrate, is the use of: other platforms are the same and not even have the option... Wait a minute!?! What kind of justification is this? I always imagined Google/YouTube a company of innovation and been different of the competitors... Not a copycat company. You are what you are because of what was built over the time and the difference you do.

If you really want to help the creators, there are plenty of chronical problems that until today was never fixed or improved. The dislike count, is not a real problem to focus.

If the dislike "army" is attacking, hiding the counter, makes no difference at all. You literally believe that you found a protection so good and effective that all creators now can sleep well at night without the fear of been disliked... This is amazing...

Why you don't implement something like, the viewer needs to watch at least 50% of the video for the like/dislike to count?

I know you are a profit based company, nothing against that... Would be too much to ask to not use the creators as a shield for a decision made that only focus on profit and protecting brands with crap content? This decision will not help any small channel and definitely, makes no difference to any big channel. If you want to help small channels, until they reach a specific size, the dislikes starts to count.

Again, there are plenty of options and real options that can help everyone... And not one option that focus only in one specific group.
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Its the worst idea that you have ever had. First off, most users dont like it that you remove a fundamental feature that differs your site from other social media sites. Second, users will fall into clickbait and scam more easily because they cant see the like/dislike ratio (which indicates whether a video is good or bad) which worsens the user experience. Therefore, many people will leave YouTube soon or later. From a business perspective, this will only make you lose money. So whoever came to that idea should be fired.
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Removing the dislike button counter and leaving the like button counter to allow people to figure out whether a video is a scam or good for a tutorial doesn't do anything.

It's the same as only using Body Mass Index on it's own to know if you're healthy or not.

BMI and the like counter alone are completely worthless information for anything if not paired with something else.

No one's going to read the comments of a video to figure out if it's good or not.

This is a horrible decision.
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Ironic how there’s no downvote button for this announcement. It appears censorship has kicked into overdrive at Google! My advice would be to avoid the big G and any of their products as much as possible … as it will only get worse.
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I've never responded to one of these things before because this is the first time I have heard of the YouTube Community Forum. From what I've looked into, this forum is already fairly inaccessible and does not reflect the opinion of the general userbase, as this forum isn't often advertised and not many people are aware of it at all. I know I wasn't, but that's not the point of what I'm getting at.

"We *have* learned the hard way how it feels to get a lot of dislikes ;)"

The winky face is absolutely infuriating and oozes both arrogance and conceitedness. Winking always indicates feelings of "being part of an inside joke" and similar emotions; at the end of the day, YouTube's phrasing in that FAQ demonstrates that they aren't taking this issue seriously despite being completely well aware about how unpopular this change is to a majority of YouTube viewers. This change negatively effects the viewer experience drastically, as it is no longer possible to see a like-dislike ratio at an initial glance to see if a video is worth their time, leading to cumulative hours and days spent by over a BILLION users being wasted watching videos that deserve their dislikes that could have been avoided. But improving viewer experience was never goal, as the target of this change was a fractionally small number of small creators that are doing something that makes people want to dislike their videos, for some reason depending on the situation, who can even say at this point.

But back to the point I was initially trying to make; knowing how YouTube operates after having been following various developments for basically my whole life, it is COMPLETELY clear to me that YouTube has no plans whatsoever to rollback on this change, because the people who have been voicing their opinions about how much they dislike the removal of dislikes aren't the people that YouTube was trying to please anyway. This is extremely unfortunate because this is a step in the wrong direction in my opinion, as being able to view or not view dislikes should be an opt-in feature that I would opt into every day of the week. So, on assumption that YouTube isn't going to bring the dislike button back (the dislike button for comments being functionally useless for viewers is proof of this), why did they think it was a good idea to wink at the people upset by this??? It absolutely assumes the moral high ground and intentionally / unintentionally riles people up about such a negative change more so than what they already are. EXTREMELY disappointed with the casualness and immaturity in the FAQ verbage, especially when winking about YouTube Rewind. None of the FAQ responses were very helpful to me (edit: I felt it was mostly just reiterating the same things, which is what I've seen around for YouTube's response is just the same thing over and over in my opinion), but that one not only doesn't help the situation whatsoever, but makes the situation WORSE and hurts the reception to this change even more.
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If we could see the experiment data, That would be helpful to convince us of this.
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And that is why we need to switch from YouTube to something else.
We require a new platform that brings back the glory days of YouTube.
Because this in nonsense.
This is a direct insult to the users.
YouTube does not care about its users nor it's creators.
This is just for political use.
If I can't dislike a video where some politician talks nonsense, then I don't want to stay on this platform.
This just shows that YouTube is just another corrupt company that does not care about it's customers.
I am afraid that this not caring about your customers is becoming a trend in the world.
We have to push back against this.
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Oh no....god forbid someone gets offended by dislikes. 
Please, cut the crap - you don't give a damn about creators or regular users. Big corps and govs ---- that's another story though.
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This is horrible.

Seeing the dislike vs like ration would give viewers and idea of the video quality they are about to watch... now instead of seeing that this video is most likely not worth my time watching, I have to filter through so many minutes to conclude that either the information in the video is not accurate, or it is just bad. 

What a horrible idea Youtube, with every update you're just getting worse and worse. I am begging and dreaming for the day another streaming platform takes over!
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Thanks for making the platform WORSE for everyone.
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I am not happy about this change.
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BING BACK THE VIEWERS VOICE!

#DISLIKESARE4VIEWERS
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This change is utter trash. This shouldn't be a forced option. This only benefits a few people, while hurting the interface and making scams much easier. Hiding the dislike button simply drives up the like/dislike ratio. I honestly don't see why creators cannot simply CHOOSE to hide both dislikes and likes, as it maintains a fair playing field. Please add dislikes back or at least make it an optional change.
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Seeing if a video is worth it before seeing the video is super useful. I want to be able to show the world when content is bad. Don't remove this, no-one asked for this. Harassment through dislikes is a joke, comments are way more important. Start by moderating the comments!
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Fuck you, YouTube deserves to lose everything they earned so the creators can get an alternative that respects THEM instead of big brands.
I wish you the worst of luck in any way possible to your company.
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Wow, genuinely bad content gets to have a pass because you guys want to protect big names.
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There are scam videos targeting kids across YouTube, specifically gamers, where the downvote was sometimes the only way to communicate the risks. If a creator turned off comments, this was the only "signal" you could send to other users that a video wasn't safe. 

YouTube needs to recognize that videos which are encouraging kids to commit ad fraud, download risky "gaming plugins" and other behavior that exposes them to account takeover risks, need ways for researchers to get those videos pulled, and/or communicate risks to end-users.

You guys suck so bad now.
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The dislike button is a small amount of power that a viewer has. It's a small fist against larger powers, that strikes at egos. The dislike button is binary. There is no nonsense about it. Why become more like Twitter and Instagram where all kinds of crap gets shoveled out with no way of being able to immediately gauge quality, or divisiveness of the content. This is extra important on YouTube when videos can be very long, not just simple 1 minute clips or images.

These so called "dislike mobs" are actually just individuals who find the quality of a video bad and/or disagree with the core message of the video. Obviously because corporations don't like the fact they're so out off touch with normal people, they feel the need to silence consumers and preserve their precious egos. 
Just watch EmpLemon's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdGbOT8NXnE
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This is a bad decision and I hope the team will consider reversing the decision. The simplicity of an up vote / down vote ratio gives consumers a simple and easy chance to voice an opinion about the content of the video. The consensus of the community about the quality of a video is important information for us all, alerting to misinformation, out dated information or controversial opinions.

You are claiming this helps small creators, it feels more likely to help the big corporations so their feelings don't get hurt when they release terrible or ill considered promotions.

It comes at the cost of your users. This takes away a feature that we use and support and is valuable to ensuring greater quality of content on the platform. This decision hurts everyone, YouTube included, except for those who will make more money by hiding conflicting opinions.

Thanks for listening, really do hope the Up vote and Down Votes will remain visible and useful to all.
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Question and answer #1. 
As removing the ability to see how others respond to the video is covering up facts of any given video; regardless of the viewer being able to like or dislike a video, removing the like to dislike ratio without providing a means to quickly gauge third party opinion about the said video is a form of censorship. 

Furthermore, instead of hand waving the results of such trials, I think it is reasonable that the methodologies used in the experiment, the parties involved and the results should be free and easily accessible.

Question and answer #2. 
While there are instances of targeted dislike campaigns by bad actors, there are other ways to mitigate such behavior via blocking dislike bots and/or account verification. 
Also it appears that the main point of the question has not been addressed. 

Question and answer #3. 
Please expand on how removing public information of the like to dislike ratio helps and protects small content creators, when the same information is still available privately. 
While the argument of the content creator having the right to feel safe about getting their message across has merit, the audience also have the right to gauge their opinion of the said content. 
Furthermore receiving criticism will also help the content creator to improve which could lead to an increase of the audience size. 

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We will see if the platform does make any changes based on feedback.
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YouTube is still going to let creators see dislikes on their own videos though
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Please don't do this. But if this is happening, please include a ratio of viewers that have watched the video entirely through and liked or omitted liking. We absolutely NEED to know whether a video is ACCURATE in today's age. Misinformation is a bigger problem than ever. Some measure of accuracy NEEDS to be included for tutorials, science videos, news, etc. Without some measure of accuracy, troubleshooting issues will be harder than ever, DIY jobs will be more time consuming and misinformation will leak everywhere.

EDIT: Also if the main issue (as stated in the video) is coordinated attacks, just make it so the dislike only becomes public if the user has watched a substantial portion of the video. I feel that there are so many better ways of attacking this issue (in addition to the fact that users CAN ALREADY disable the ratio on their own accord). 

Hopefully, YouTube does more research. Get a group of frequent watches and track where their eyes go before a video starts. I would put money on it going to the ratio. Measure the likelihood of a viewer to consider whether the content is accurate with and without the button. Do more. Lastly, make the research, already done, public please. You shouldn't be changing a key part of the platform, as well as your distinguishing feature from other platforms over a single, possibly flawed, small study.
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If the feature isn't broken, don't fix it. Stop with the blatant lies and just keep the damn dislike count. Stop taking our voices away because a small percentage of troublemakers who don't want to take accountability for their actions told you to. Look at the sheer amount of dislikes and negative comments you get here and other platforms and realize just how pointless and awful this decision is and reverse it.
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Revert this. Your conclusions are based on confirmation bias and don't take into account the other very valid reasons people use the dislike feature and how they have come to  utilise the public vote counts.
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This is going backwards. This counter is super helpful with How-to videos, and educational ones. The ratio helps determine students choose best educational content. BRING IT BACK
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This is dangerous for so many reasons.

Videos promoting scams, false information, bad and/or dangerous tutorials, videos directing users to malware disguised as cracked software/movies, are rampant across many corners of Youtube. 

Tens of thousands of people have saved me hundreds of dollars, and hours of my life countless times as expressed through the Dislike Count, indicating a clear warning to the viewer that something isn't right.

To protect myself and my families interests, I'll be looking for a majority of our content elsewhere from now on.
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i'm disappointed but not surprised. :(
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You have made the entire platform WORSE in this decision.

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO VET CONTENT FOR WHETHER OR NOT IT IS USEFUL OR A WASTE OF TIME?

YOU MORONS. if you delete the dislike button, people just take their frustrations out more explicitly in the comments section, so you succeed in making YouTube a more toxic place while protecting big daddy state media. Congratulations, you cretins.
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Wow, thanks, youtube, you made the worst update ever. Go fix yourself already and not treating us like babysitters, you moron admins.
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сука, как блять теперь отличить видео тупого индуса когда ищешь информацию, долбпебы, хуйню очередную выкоиили
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Sir please support my chanel
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You proclaim this was done in the pursuit of protecting smaller creators, that having a publicly available dislike count results in more motivation from "trolls" to harass users via the dislike button.. and yet you still make the number of dislikes visible to the creator? People who are susceptible to these attacks that damage their ego to a strong degree aren't going to be helped by this change. This doesn't change anything besides depriving the viewer of an outlet of expression. And all of this was done to stop "dislike mobs"? Could you actually define to me what you consider a dislike mob? What do you consider a "troll"? In fact, how do you even determine if a dislike is done to harm a creator, if a dislike is done to troll? You're telling me you're depriving the entire site of the publicly available dislike count because most likely less than 0.0001% of users participate in dislike mobs? I hate to be rude, but this an atrocious change, and the dismissive behavior of the staff is even more infuriating. Do you ever even listen to your creators, to your users? Do you know why people are calling this change corporate? Well, what I mentioned prior is exactly why. Because you aren't listening to your users, this change was done because an incredibly small percentage of creators, complained about am incredibly small percentage of users "dislike bombing" their video. This change was done without consulting the opinions of your users. This is why people are calling this change corporate. I'm making this post not because I want to complain and attack YouTube, but because I genuinely care about what this site represents. And right now, it's headed in a direction I don't think anyone wants.
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screw this, i'm moving out of youtube once for all
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In fact this new rule is gonna cause more bullying and harassment!
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As a student I find the the dislike counter gave great insight into whether or not an educational video actually has correct information or not. Taking away this metric makes people blind and susceptible to misinformation.  The idea that you are retaining peoples' "voice" with this update is a joke.

Stop thinking so hard Youtube you're going to hurt yourself. While you're at it, get rid of Youtube Shorts, If I wanted to see TikTok videos I'd get TikTok.
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Thank you but no thank you
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I'll give you my take, since you think your perfect little experiments are all it takes to make fundamental changes to this platform.

I use the dislike button on comments far more than I used to ever since the vote count was hidden. What I have I had to lose? I can downvote any comment I want for any reason, and not only it will ever show up or affect the vote count, it won't even tell you if you got a dislike or who. Before the change, I used it far more reasonably, since I led the votes do the talking. Nowadays, disliking anything is quick and easy, with no consequence whatsoever, and you'll never have any idea if your awful comment got downvoted to oblivion.

Removing dislikes on videos mean you admit votes don't even matter to you. Then why do you care about the like button? Why does it up a counter? Do you use the likes and dislikes to influence a video's exposure and recommendations? If so, what's right with the like that makes the dislikes wrong? If you want a neutral metric to influence a video's performance, why don't you use views and watch times? Don't you think people who really liked a video would share it themselves? If so, why do the dislikes matter so much anyway?

Think about it. The likes and dislikes were never about influencing a video's performance. It was always about showcasing the viewer's voice. Taking voting features away mean you don't care about people's opinions, and you are actively working to take away people's choice to disagree and dissent. Haven't you seen what your changes have done to the comments section? Do you want the same consequences for videos as well?

Your arguments for taking the dislikes away are so out of touch with reality, it doesn't make any sense. If people abuse the dislike button, why can't they abuse the like button? What do you do to make sure either vote count isn't artificially inflated?

Not only you're making liking/disliking videos pointless, you are also incentivizing people to dislike a video without any (at the least bit) visual consequence. People can now hit the dislike button with nothing happening on their side. Dislike bombing will still work, and people who will suffer the most are regular viewers. More "dislikable" content will get pushed to the top, harming the quality and recommendations of the platform as a whole.
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My channel not boost
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No!! Bring this back! We strongly oppose this decision. The like/dislike ratio helps determine whether or not a video is entertaining, useful, or educational. Without it we have to waste our time watching videos blindly having to find this out ourselves. Imagine if Netflix or IMDB censored dislikes or low ratings - that would be ludicrous! 

Take this video for example. I can see that it currently has 9,000 likes. Is that good? Bad? Do people like this decision? We as viewers have no idea or comparison anymore! We can guess that out of 670,000 views, 9,000 liked this - so I can assume that a greater number of people dislike this video. But why are we left to assume? 

This is a terrible decision and will cause such frustration for viewers trying to find useful, supportive, and constructive content without having to filter through countless videos before finding a good video.The absence of like/dislike ratios will discourage me from watching new creators beyond my trusted bubble, because there's no longer a useful rating scheme. 

BRING BACK THE LIKE/DISLIKE RATIO!!!!!!
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Take away the dislikes and now people will actually post criticism that will cut deeper than any dislike. If this is what you wanted, then you will have it. The internet will not comply. 👎
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The biggest problem is that any information about likes and dislike ratio is now gone.
If a channel with 100k subs has 1000 likes, and another channel with 100k subs has 50000 likes. It might seem that the channel with the 1000 likes is worse. But different channels have different call-to-action or like/dislike responses. The channel with fewer likes might be much better even tho it's viewership is less involved with liking/disliking. I can't believe I'm here to tell you that the ratio's are important to viewers, no the total amount of likes.

This is a big mistake.
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If the goal was really to stop abuse against creators, why not just have a report flag for videos in which the creator seems to be getting harassed unfairly, and maybe then the dislikes can be hidden? Even just giving the option to a creator to hide their dislikes sounds better than completely hiding it everywhere, though I definitely think advertisers and big companies and big creators should not be able to hide dislikes from us. Why completely take away our ability to convey our view of a video's content and quality? This is ridiculous
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So are the twat waffles in charge not wanting people to see how many dislike certain things get these days. You get dislikes stop crying and grow the fuck up.
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Also what is even the point of an upvote button on this post when there is no downvote button? Jesus Christ..
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As we speak I'm looking at guitar tutorials and I have NO IDEA which ones are good or not because I can't see the likes vs dislikes. How am I supposed to differentiate between quality and spam?
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Just wanted to say as a very small creator, this doesn't even protect small creators. Now if someone wants to publicly express their dislike of a video, they will just go to the comments section and write a nasty comment instead. The comments of a poor-recieved video will now become even more vitriolic due to this change.
I feel that YouTube by and large does not listen to its small creators.
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"We learned a lot from this experiment and thank you for your comments and feedback", you say on your post announcing the experiment. That feedback was all negative. There's only a single comment on the 1st page in favor of this change. So when you say you learned from this you mean you learned that nobody wants this change but you're implementing it anyway.
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I actually love it because I am a small YouTuber and start crying when I get a dislike. Awesome to me.
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My phone is off
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Then you should grow up and not be a Content Creator if you can't even handel a single dislike on your video!
Unbelievable! 
Do you realize you are supporting Corptocrasy with you nativity?!
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Then you need to get your shot together crying over a dislike that’s complete BS. You can still see your dislikes it’s not like yt is removing them from the creator seeing them. It’s clear that you run one of these false information channels you ever wonder why that you might get a high number of dislikes, hmm idk maybe because your content is incorrect your entitled to likes but people can have their own opinion don’t like the dislike button or cry when they dislike your video? Easy stop uploading or make your title of your video not inaccurate or your content complete rubbish.
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Nice update thanx youtube team
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Thanks for u
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Ok 👌👌👌👌 good updated 🙂
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Great, now the viewer cant check a video quality so people can just spam low quality videos.
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As an user i strongly deny this decision by youtube if you want to remove dislike button you should also remove like button lest add dislike button this is not a transparency idea for public
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thnks to youtube team...
very very nice and i am big fan.
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If you cry when you get a dislike get some therapy, that’s not healthy
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mai request you to monotaiz my youtube channel please
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I am a small YouTuber.i am starting my journey right now.
If you allow me to know my like and dislike it will help me to improve my content and videos
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Then don't have them force us to not have dislikes and just give us an option to disable them, or just disable the Dislikes/Likes on your stuff.
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please help to monetize my channel
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This is the worst thing I have ever read.
Please change it back.
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Meaghan, you must resign from this position and then find a job somewhere else. By removing the right for people to protest, you have betrayed your supposed commitment to democracy and freedom of speech. There is a reason why the right to protest is at heart of any functioning democracy: it lets otherwise powerless people express their dissatisfaction and demand change. Now, people cannot protest when corporations or content creators abuse their trust. This isn't even going into the obvious problems with detecting spam, misinformation, and just plain bad content.
If you don't resign, then I'm not sure how you can say that you have any self-respect. You have failed the community and the world. And most importantly, you have failed yourself.
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Please allowed my sandal
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Place around my YouTube channel
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Ok, let me get this straight. You do this to protect your "smaller creators" from getting dislike bombed. BUT, there's a fatal flaw with this. The number of scam videos on youtube far outnumber that of smaller creators being review bombed. These scam videos can harm a person through various means, and can even cause them to become financially burdened by this. In comparison, a few small creators dont really make the trade off seem worth it. There are likely millions who create video's, but lack the ability to stand up to dislikes. If people face so many dislikes, then they are either doing something wrong, or have done something wrong. These few instances of dislike bombing for small creators would require these small creators to have enough views to make it substantial. Additionally, the dislike feature is a good indicator of quality as well as a fantastic source to ensure that said video actually stands up to what it claims. 
The disadvantages for the removal of the dislike feature is vast and far more than I could possibly write before straining my eyes and hurting my fingers. But I will say that the only advantage is that smaller creators don't get "dislike bombed"? That's a ridiculous reason and small creators who are actually capable can take it into stride. Use the views gained from it to their advantage and turn the situation for the better. Content creators who are unable to handle receiving criticism, even if its unwarranted, are likely not the type to last long. I'm sorry youtube, but the choice to remove the dislike button is foolish and unnecessary. In fact, it would bring more harm than good. 
Even if we were to all report videos that contain scams, copyright, frauds, violence, or sexual content. So much of it is output, and only so much of it is taken down at a time. Some instances may require the video to be assessed for up to a week or more before its taken down. So many could be harmed by these things, and the dislike button was something that had allowed for us to reasonably understand if it was real or fake. 
The removal of the dislike button is an awful choice, and I hope that you will be able to remedy it. I understand that you basically control all viewers regarding videos because there is no real alternative. But I'm willing to give up on youtube if these sort of decisions continue for a few more years. What allows for outstanding channels to rise above the rest is the ability for people to see the ratio of likes to dislikes. One is able to find if there is a channel worth looking into, and that's how many rose to gain hundreds of thousands, if not millions of subscribers. I'm sorry, but this decision was among one of your most foolish and deplorable yet.
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I believe this will create a significantly positive psychological change for many people around the world.  Thanks Google, and I hope that you continue to lead by example, as you have the power to effect great positive changes.

For those who seem to think Youtube videos should be  "sources of truth" and not simply the opinion of the content creator - please remember you still have the ability to persuade or manipulate others to see things your way, you will just have to use words now and present a rational argument or other reason as to why!
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The true purpose of this is to protect the White House and the corporate press who are popularly downvoted for their blatant propaganda and chronic lies.  They don’t want everyone (regular people) to easily discover that they are not alone in their feelings of animosity towards the Managerial Elite.  There’s nothing wrong with “downvote attacks”; regular people are providing each other with feedback that the corporate press is the enemy of the people.
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Can we see the raw experiment data itself?
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Bring it back you cowards
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Who is offered by dislikes then don't read comments, or turn them off. But turning off comments you won't get engament with your video like when comments are turned on.
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post a better video bro. this shits so dumb
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@Ahhna Shrivstava: I am sorry that you feel like this. Everyone deserves a safe space.

However, hiding the counter as stated, is for the public and the counter will still be available for you inside your metrics... In which, small YouTubers, usually get fixed on them to know how the videos are doing.

You are still going to see the video dislike counter and you will still cry about this. The solution is basically not solving the problem at all.

One final thought: you should rethink how you react to feedbacks that are negative. If you are not able to handle a simple counter of dislikes, you will have a extreme rough path growing on the internet... Or even worse, you can get some health issues.

Again, each person is different and reacts differently to situations.

Stay safe and well!!

Edit: spelling correction
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@Frederick Claudino

These are actually scams.
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Hello sir
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Pa help sa YouTube channel
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“If it helps, you can still dislike a video, and creators will see this feedback privately in Studio if they choose to look up the dislike count metric. We are not removing the ability to dislike content.”

That’s not really the problem, though. Without the like/dislike ratio, our most convenient way of knowing whether or not a video is good is now a thing of the past.


“While we understand and respect that not everyone welcomes this change, it’s an important step to reduce behavior that aims to silence and harass creators, especially smaller creators and channels just getting started on YouTube.”

I for one would love to know who these creators are. Other than unpopular singers like Rebecca Black, I’ve never seen anybody get unfairly attacked by a dislike mob. Also, something that I don’t think was thought out well is that people are now much more likely to take to the comments and vent there instead of disliking the video and being on their merry way, and take it from someone who’s been cyberbullied on Discord, mean comments can mess with your head a LOT worse than a measly dislike.


“We see why some folks might think that though it’s absolutely not the case. We are making the dislike count private to protect our creators by reducing targeted dislike attacks on their channels.”

Really? Only 20% of the ratings on this post are likes, and going off of that alone, I don’t think this is a change that a lot of people wanted. The only people who I can see benefitting from this are big brands that happen to get terrible like/dislike ratios on their videos.
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Your research is flawed. 

You say it didn't matter if a video had public dislikes or not, viewers still watched. Whether they watched a video or not is NOT THE SAME as whether they enjoyed/understood/believed what they watched. You are enabling lies and misinformation by hiding negative feedback!
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How to subscribe my channel.please healp me.I am new creat YouTube channel.I have not experience.
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Now I can’t work out what’s a good quality vid compare to troll/spammy/scam vids

 **** this site, if these guys don’t change then YouTube is no longer YouTube. Even Facebook can do tho is better.


The only thing YouTube has done now is made me hit dislike on every video. Like seriously
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To main ek YouTube kholna chahta hun aur tum sab ki ek support chahie
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Hello Guys you can help me Like and subscribers and comment? https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/an-update-on-kids/
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Improvements to YouTube Kids
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DISLIKE
LMAO you censoring mfs hiding the truth from people. BOE JIDENS VIDEOS that evil fraud puppet. youre all so dirty. your empire is crumbling.
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This is censorship, this is unnecessary, this is unhelpful, this is detrimental. It is absolutely unacceptable.
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As a small creator I demand that dislikes be retained. Removing the visibility of dislikes does nothing to help me and harms all the users in YouTube.
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Yeah I'm reporting this post as an abuse because it is an abuse of a power to silence and hide an important piece of information that all viewer use to decide whether to start watching a video or to take the information from the video with a pinch of salt or not.
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YouTube channel please update sir
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I'm ok with videos with low view counts having the ability to hide dislikes; Videos with high view counts should fully display their dislikes, the likes and dislikes of those videos is so high you've have to make hundreds of accounts to have any significant effect. If this is about just protecting small creators, big creators should not be affected and should still have their dislike counts displayed.
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Release the academic paper so that it can be peer reviewed.

Community does not understand that YT does not care about public image, well being of others, political agenda. All it cares about is the stocks and they saw other companies using a no dislike in their business case that worked. I do not want the community to get stuck in a circle jerk of: "because YT rewind, Biden, companies, etc".

Let me explain why this choice is not only bad for viewers, creators BUT also bad for Youtube. 

Does it reduce harrasment: 
No. People need to vent their disapproval. YouTube has a community that is used to this now with a dislike, but once removed, will move on to actual hurtful comments. The algorithm can detect some hateful comments but not every single one. Here: "I just followed orders" - nzi YT staff. 
Try to detect that. Can only optimize the algorithm so much. You'd have to remove it, but you still get confronted by even more hateful comments now. 

Does it increase stock (for youtube important): 
Correlation is not causation YouTube. This is a basic research principle. Example: Just because alcohol is banned in other countries and works in their society, does not mean it will work for ours. Not all social media share the same content use and community. YouTube is highly based on quality  with like-dislike ratio. I instantly click off a video if I see the video has a low ratio.
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if your intention is protecting creators, you are severely wrong. This will do more than harm than good to general viewers as they will become more vulnerable to spam, clickbait, misinformation etc.. You can just make an algorithm detecting malicious, unauthentic/coordinated behavior regarding dislike count instead of removing the dislike counter. judging by your decision, it seems you are merely have hidden agenda behind this.
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What a horrible decision and the worst of it is that you are trying justify it with care about small creators while most of them are counter that idea.
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No No No !!!! Dislike must be !
If i see dislike i have information for technical or issues helping videos is good or is spam.
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সবার মাঝে আমি আছি
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well, first of all, you’ll still see dislikes on your own videos, it’s just that no one else will be able to. second of all, people can still just comment on your video to say that they dislike it. third of all, there’s always been an option to turn off likes and dislikes for a video. and fourth of all, who cries when they get a dislike? that just sounds stupid.
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I am having the same issues on my popular new views, getting loads of dislike in few minutes, for sure not from my followers. Why dont you just get away with the dislike button anyway. The Like button should suffice as a metric for a good video - the more Likes the better it is - simple
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Bhai teri bat bilkul sahi h
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Now we know that Youtube effectively promotes low-quality or othervise community-undesirable content on its platform.
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"Protect small creators" pfffffffff! Let's be real you did this to protect the big corps, no small creators want this removal
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YouTube can still make it so you will be able to disable dislikes but it will be automatically turned off, to make people know if creator is trying to scam, etc.
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I've canceled my YT Premium and enabled my adblocker until this discission is reverted.  I am voting with my wallet / personal data.  I DO NOT WANT THIS!
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So the cure to you stopping crying is to make sure everyone else can't criticize the opinions you put forward?
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This is a horrible idea. Informational videos on news, history and science can be made by anyone and likes/dislikes helps inform at a glance how the video is. There’s clickbait and scams and dangerous crafts/life hacks that without dislikes are harder to tell if they’re legit right away. This endangers the uninformed and ignorant, which is anyone trying to learn from a video on your platform. Also it makes it easier to make artificial likes seem legit when there’s nothing to compare against. I don’t trust a media hosting site without ability to quickly review
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I cannot support a company which suppresses open discussion while promoting propaganda any longer. Removing the dislike option is just another step in the wrong direction. I will finally have to close the 2 accounts I pay for and put the approximately $287 CDN annually to a better cause.
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Cancelled premium cause of this shit, hope it costs you a shit ton of money, since this change proves that's all you give a shit about anymore
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This is a terrible idea. Now instead of being able to see that a Flat Earth video which has 20k likes has 150k dislikes, you will only see the likes. This bad awful decision is going to make YouTube even more of a cesspool of misinformation and spam than it already is.
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wow, what a horrible idea
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this is a really silly decision, only reason they're able to do this is because of the lack of competition and they can make all the weird decisions that help noone except their heads.
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Like-dislike ratio was extremely useful for me as a student and also as an normal person. With this metric I can sort usefull informations easier and faster. This change will only waste my time and I will get lower quality information from the content more often. 

Think more about the satisfaction of your viewers = customers, than on the money gained from the watchtime.
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can someone make a competitor to YouTube already so we can all leave this awful website and company
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Even if this decision was taken with the best intentions, which I don't believe for a second,  this is still a terrible idea. It may fix a problem but it creates many other bigger problems in the process. For my part, I just canceled my youtube subscription. I know this won't affect google in the slightest but I don't want to support this form of censorship.
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Youtube, I think you need to consider that there are scammers out there who may be considered "small" but are hard to identify as such when we cant see the dislike ratio. I use the dislike to help identify when a creator is lying, has offensive content, or is scamming. If they turn off comments this will make it impossible to isolate. I also think you need to list examples how "likes" where used as attacks in the first place. I have yet to see a video that was "attacked" by dislikes when they didn't deserve it because either they were misleading, click bait, scamming, or had offensive content.
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2 days onward but not yet activate. Im not in a hurry but why the dislikes button is visible and not yet activated. I go to browser yt to see if there's an option but not. Please roll out soon. I go to other page but still dislikes rating is see. Thanks for updating the system later. Looking forward to...
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If you cry when you get a dislike get some therapy, that’s not healthy
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Seems like totalitarian censorship to me. Dislike button is very informative and is the only way to show that some propaganda channels have no real audience having like:dislike ratio of 1:100. Now there is no real way to mark those channels as not recommended. Please do return public view for dislike counter or I'll have to start my own service for public likes/dislikes sharing for youtube videos.
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This post is a perfect example of the problem here.   All the comments are negative but it only has upvotes visible.  Makes you think on a glance this was liked.   This is the wrong decision.  Since creators have the ability to delete negative comments on ther videos there is now no way to assess content before having to watch it, or to voice a true opinion on it.   This is literally censoring true feedback on your platform.  Additionally I've watched dozens of videos by your own creators saying that what you're using as an excuse for this almost never happens.  Additionally if a creator was having a problem with downvotes they can already choose to hide the vote counts on their own videos.   There is literally no justification that makes any sense for this change but all I see is Youtube replies akin to "Nah nah, we can ignore you".... which is I guess exactly what this change will do to the whole platform.
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complete Bullshit. 

everybody sees through the lies from google, but what else is new?
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100% do not support this decision. Everyone do your best to unsubscribe from YouTube premium, and dislike they're video into the ground.
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This is censorship. Way to bow the knee
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"A: If it helps, you can still dislike a video, and creators will see this feedback privately in Studio if they choose to look up the dislike count metric. We are not removing the ability to dislike content. "

No, this does not help. Being unable to see dislikes is going to make YouTube far less useful.

This change is bad.
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Omg why, if they feel "attacked" them they are too sensitive to handle having a YT channel because you have to be able to toughen up and ignore the trolls, but instead it is making soft babies even softer.  And that research is bull crap, that is just you coving up for your fear of getting complaints from content creators and then an angry Karen suing YT because there child got "attacked".
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As a frequent user of the youtube website, who watches many videos, i would like to say that your option to remove the dislike count has been a great inconvenience for me, and in harsh words, extremely f*cking annoying.

Unlike before, where i could easily see if a video, especially commentary ones and tutorials were actually factual and good, or controversial, now i have to waste my time either reading the comments, or watching the whole bloody video, this is very irritating (combined with how many ads have recently been appearing), and often makes me skip videos, that may have been actually good, just because I am not sure if they are worth watching.

Thanks for making your website even more sh*tty than it already is, and making the experience of using it worse.
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This idea is pure idiacy without the ability to see if anyone else shares your opinion you lose the ability to give your opinion. Without the ability to deside whether to like or dislike something you lose all sense of humanity, so your making a platform that can freely lie, scam, mislead or take advantage of people or most commonly children that haven't fully developed their decision making skills so they get ideas to mimic what some of your idiot creators support and think there is no consequence. In dummy terms your making kids think it's ok to steal, kill, or do anything they want without the insight of consequences, so yes this annoys me but once this world is burning down due to your dumb idea you will only then finally see the terrible things that you have caused.
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If you do this the whole of your community with a brain will leave as will I and any creators that are actually making good content and trying to spread awareness of the terrible people you enable and here I will name just a few. Any family channel, almost all fact channels, the people you pay millions to that are taking advantage of children (which is illegal yet it still happens and your ok with), and all giveaway channels. With this change you will lose all of your good and hardworking creators that want to make a difference and all the people that are tired of your B.S
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That's true, but, many viewers may not use the dislike button because they can't see the counter. Communication to viewers that the creator is going to see dislikes is still very important.
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Creators can still see dislikes on their own videos, though.
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All I'm reading is still a load of bull from you Google, we're all hating here for the love that started with the beginning and rising of Youtube. You are **disgracing** that very thing

To be honest people are taking a bit too far, what do you expect though? 

I still have good wishes for everyone at google, we still love you. But this is like that alcoholic parent making a huge mistake and the kid is just not taking it and that kid is the one doing the parenting in those situations, take that metaphor with thats going on lately.

Bless you and everyone at Youtube/Google, I myself has given toxic feedback - now that I'm calm I regret it, but, we have to learn from this. Show the example and your community will follow.

LOVE YOU GOOGLE BUT COMMON
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Well, is it because Biden get to much dislike?
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How dare you pretend to want to give everyone a voice while taking it away from the viewers themselves.

You've been using a bunch of very tricky language to cover up how insane this is. If a resturant had the ability to hide all of it's 1 star rating's you could be confidently eating at a resturant with 50 five star reviews and 10,000 one star reviews. It's aggregious and dishonest at it's core and you know it. 

You cite people abusing content creators with dislikes yet refuse to acknowledge that without the viewers expressing themselves your platform would become rife with dishonestly and misinformation. The damage done by content creators has been, and always will be, a much greater threat than viewers disliking videos.

When you remove this change, and you will, it'll be too late and people will have already left your platform. You guys deserve everything coming your way right now.
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i'm just going to dislike every video i see
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Okay, that's good to know. I used to hold back hitting 'dislike' as to not discourage creators. Since the dislike is gone and only applies to one's algorithm, I will use it all the time.

If I find a video even slightly lower in quality than what I expect it should be, I will hit the dislike. So that means I will go from 1 dislike a month to a few dozen a day. I suggest that everyone do the same as well. Our algorithms should improve faster now. Thank you YouTube.
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I know that currently there is an option for creators to hide the likes and dislikes for the public. With this change, I've been wondering if it is possible to do it the other way around (the videos defaults to a hidden like/dislike bar and the youtuber can make it public manually)
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I am a regular content creator on youtube.a few days ago,my YouTube channel was suspended due to copyright strikes.but i made video according to"fair use"policy. I know very well about youtube fair use.all copyright strike were fake.i do not understand what mistake i have made.Please check out my youtube channel again and give me back my channel
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Noted on this! Thank you
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Like you videos
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I do not understand English Langunge so much , but please tell me ,what make diffrent I do no like,and I don'n 
like ,because for me ,I only ask help from peoples or my friend who can help me ,this is disturb slways with me, all the time when I open my email , I am tired and pobiah they never stop, to boder me, if I like to change to another Google, peoples don' t have to tell me ,I will do fore my self, so if they do not like I talk not to nice , to what they think please do not disturb me anymore , I sorry if the word I do not like ,that make you company down, but please do not disturb me about my account with, LLC 1600 CA USA my account rmsil sakyah samad 45@ gmail .com and if LLC do not nice to me  I will not trust them also thank ypu
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Please dont add comments like support my channel
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Thank you
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Lekin Sir YouTube channel to meri hai,,bas kuchh video aapki upload hai,,,
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To me, the number of dislikes represents the quality of content. For example, youtuber siraj raval was a scam, but I didn't know that. if there wasn't a lot of dislikes I couldn't know that later. If you get dislike, you might feel bad though, so what then you should've made better content :(
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Please viral my shorts videos
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Live video dikhana hai
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I am Suraj_yt gaming
Mujhe youtuber bana do please
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****! The dislike button helped me to identify strong or weak content. With the dislike button gone, I'm wasting my time on weak content. 
The reason behind it is shit. When you're creating content, and it sucks, then you get disliked, that's how the world works, deal with it. 
Youtube should not protect the creators, but the viewers, the end-customer!!! 
(please, if there is some alternative for youtube  let me know, i'm done with this platform anyway)
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Thanks you tube family
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Who are these "smaller creators" and "smaller channels"? Is it the White House? Joe Biden? CNN? MSNBC? Disney? Marvel?
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Most of the people knows what community guideline is but they are reluctant to maintain the guideline of YouTube community. Some people may not understand the concept at all. I have explained YouTube community guidelines briefly so that you get an overview of what you can do and what you should avoid in order to keep your channel safe. 

I have also talked about the basics of becoming a successful YouTuber. There are some tips of how to build a reliable YouTube channel.
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This is just wrong, YouTube having the dislike button made it special. In my experince as a viewer, smaller channels hardly ever gets bombarded with dislikes, but rather huge companies like Gillette and SAS.
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What an outrageous update. Whoever had that idea in your company is plain stupid (yes, this is a hate message. Don't like those? Then how about making something people like and agree with instead of make people shut up completely about it.) and totally disregards liberty of speech. I sure hope the checks from your partners will withstand the imminent backlash from the community. Personally, I won't forget about this. Also, if this doesn't get cancelled, and it probably won't, I sure hope you guys won't miss me spending 15€ monthly on YouTube premium.
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This is the worst decision you have ever made in your entire existance as a company.
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Yea bro we have to work alott harder
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This is absurd, and regardless your real motivations (and I would posit it has much more to do with large content creators and paid promoters than genuine small channels), this will push people to look elsewhere for content. Don't be fooled into thinking you are too big to fail as a platform. You are not. You got this big because you served a purpose well. Don't think you can rest on your laurels in perpetuity.

This will ruin the ability to search youtube for functional how-to guides, recipes, and instructional videos. I will not be manually sorting through the comments of every potential video to know what to avoid. This is egregiously short sighted.

The solution for people feeling bad about abuse of a mechanic shouldn't be to disable the mechanic for the extreme majority of people using it for its intended purpose. When I stop seeing the count, I'm out. I'm not alone here.
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Yeah, looks like YT can't take the heat. It's not like dislikes are a hard to maintain feature.
If they were really worried about dislike bombing they should just metric it to watch time. People who dislike a video halfway through have greater say than those who dislike instantly.

The response post is bland and soulless. 
Descoping this feature is killing hours of software engineering and design work which will supposedly improve youtube somehow.
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Yes dislike count ko remove kar do
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Taking away the ability to identity quality or not content is a failure on YouTube and a disservice to its users. This is stupid and YouTube should feel stupid. This only helps to propagate misinformation and extremism when the public has no way to tell others on it in an easy way. Your app store has ratings.... To identity good and bad apps. Add back dislikes or watch your revenue plummet.
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Haha, nice one youtube. I just disliked Meaghan teamyoutube post are you going to remove it too?

Now with this change, Youtube is effectively a bastion of hate speech, political things, etc.

Thanks, youtube for thinking about advertisers. This has nothing to do with the creator. It's just like those dictators who go to poor mans house to get marketing fame.
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While Youtube had been getting worse and worse over the last few years already, with the disgusting censorship removing ever more people with "unwanted" political opinions from the platform, this is BY FAR the WORST thing to happen on this platform. Great job ruining Youtube, congratulations. Reminds me of this old Roman story about someone suggesting slaves should be made to wear armbands to be recognizable, and the person he was talking with replied that they would then see how many they are and rebell. Same sh*t here. Nobody is supposed to see that the "most popular president EVER" (that totally didn't "win" by ele..ion-fr..d) has exactly ZERO support but only dislikes, ditto for Youtube's horrible PC videos, ditto for any political propaganda BS the left is trying to shove down everyone's throats. Nobody should see how unpopular and unwanted by the masses that bullcr*p is, so just hide the dissent with some absolutely ridiculous and lame excuse. With this change, this platform has now turned into complete sh*t. Alternative and censorship-free platforms will now hopefully soon become mainstream. Thanks for completely destroying a once great platform for an idi*tic political agenda and ideology. YOU are on the wrong side of history.
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This is complete bullshit. Your only doing this to protect those woke corporate outlets that most of the country doesn't like their propaganda messages they keep putting out. It certainly is not a half dozen small creators nobody knows about.  Its has nothing to do about protecting the small guy lol.. Every small creator knows YT does not care one pinch of pup shit about them at all.  Other platforms have dislike buttons too so stop lying while trying to polish this turd.
Its almost as though you guys have not learned anything in the past few years with policies that have devastated your platform costed billions of dollars and caused the creation and growth of at least a half dozen platforms which compete directly with you.
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Removing the dislike button is removing the ability to human-filter videos that are in the real interest of the people. If we don't have that option as a viewer, YouTube is just a cannon of content without any filters and without the rights to rate a video. 

I am sorry about companies like intel that make despicable promotional videos and we won't have the ability to turn them down.

Please leave at least the option to the creators to disable the like & dislike buttons, but leave it enabled by default. Exactly like the comments section.
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Youtube on its way to somehow make the user experience worse year after year
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Censorship and control by media equals yet one step closer to chinese communist rule. The hidden dislike also discourages people from viewing how many don't like current political authorities. Google/youtube are very much becoming like chinese media giants. Down with dissent, only the praise and live for authoritarian rule. There's absolutely nothing anybody xan do about it either. They own everything in many parts of the world. It's only going to get more restrictive.
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Yet another thing no one asked for. Maybe you should fight the root cause instead of just cutting off one arm of haters/raiders. Also, maybe try to change that creators feel "embarrassed" for high dislikes. Doing this won't fix anyone's mental health and makes YouTube loose so many sympathy points.
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Removing the dislike button is equal with raw censorship. This is not what the majority wants. Youtube should understand that he cannot count on the majority of brainwashed. The ones flying on the Internet are, in majority of cases, free spirits. They love to inform themselves with good/bad news. Their reaction to a person or position was displayed by  the like/dislike ratio. I am sick and angry of it. This is not freedom anymore. After govs used the pandemic problem to remove basic freedom, now YouTube plays a role in it. I started to lose my patience. Not good, guys!! Not good!
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Well this is most likey going to increase the number of scams on your plateform so i wonder how will it work if someone files a lawsuit after being scammed because the video was dislked a lot and they were not able to see it.
Because if you have videos scamming the users and those videos have the comments removed and the users cannot see the dislikes you might actually be held accountable for once, guess i will wait to see how this develops.
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Do you really think that this is going to protect small creators and not just cause people to lash out at them in alternative ways? Your removing things the VAST MAJORITY of your user base didn’t want removed and coasting on the fact your too big to cancel as the premier video website. 

I hope you keep pushing out these unwanted updates so alternatives like Vimeo and Dailymotion can actually give you some competition and force you to enact policies and features your users actually want in order to survive. 

Everyone reading this I encourage you to support alternative websites, don’t let one company rule the web.
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According to The Hill.  U.S mainstream media finished dead last among 46 countries in media trust.
If they want to get likes again, maybe they should start doing real news again instead of selling lies for the ruling class within our caste-system?  Remember when YouTube gave them the Authoritative News title in the algorithm?  How's that working out for them if nobody trusts them to begin with?  These people literally used your platform to incite riots and create echo-chambers that have torn families apart, caused a massive mental health crisis, probably are responsible for tens of thousands of suicides, divided the U.S as well as Canada, and you recommend them to everyone!  You're whole platform went to hell as soon as you did, the whole country went to hell as soon as you did.  

The funny thing is, you call it dislike bombing from bots, but then why is their likes so low?  Regardless of bots, NOBODY LIKES IT ANYWAYS. Not to mention dislike bombing, which I have never seen a time it wasn't justified, ( because I disliked said atrocious videos too and I've seen you remove my dislike too on said videos *cough* Diablo Immortal *cough*), regardless, this dislike bombing generates viewership participation which bumps their content up with the algorithm. It actually helps these disingenuous content be seen on your platform, not to mention I see people putting out misleading videos knowing fully well it'll get disliked and bumped up regardless.  You think it affects their mental health when they are sociopaths anyways?

Also, Youtube, why is this video blacklisted on YouTube? I tried sharing it on an MSNBC video asking why they cut this clip out during the 2016 elections but your A.I auto deletes my comment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3JZdmpCPl8&list=PLZcoxxMgB8Fr0-YU80DNSeDD0TI7vMkGE&index=2    This appears to be collusion on your part and this is probably highly illegal. But I guess laws don't mean anything anymore with Google in charge of the U.S.  It's fascinating that your company was aware of the existence of this clip and didn't do the right thing, instead you try to alter public opinion and help change the outcome of elections.

Despite the outrage for these hegemonic alterations you've done to society, you seriously have the audacity to treat us like cattle in these comment sections and I can even tell you're having a good laugh Meaghan. You people are the definition of the word evil and I sincerely hope you meet another Nasim Najafi Aghdam at your HQ. Because you clearly didn't learn your lesson the first time.
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thanks for ruining youtube, yet again.
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What a counterproductive idea!  I use the number of dislikes to help determine if a video is a scam/clickbait title or not (among other things).  How is this not obvious?  In my opinion this is another step in the downward spiral of what was once a great platform.   

This going to drive viewers away from exploring new content, and make them stick with the creators they already know.  Terrible idea.
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Can you still show the dislike count on the videos, like its set to defualt where you veiwers cant see the dislike count. but you can set it where viewers can see it, kinda like a option. if you can, me as a small youtuber wont be worried
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Okay thanks
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Thank you for your time
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This is just ridiculous, if the creator still can see his approval rating privatly then all the negative effects (if any) will still happen to him lol..... 

This just makes the platform get filled with more bad, clickbait and potentially dangerous content like bad tutorials that people wont know it is dangerous until it is too late
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Q: This feels like censorship. For many, the dislike button was informative and way to express feedback.
So, creators who don't like dislikes and are being ''protected' by hiding the number publicly will still be able to see it. which changes nothing.

There's enough junk on YouTube already, from scams to you name it dislikes help users steer clear of these videos. 

Lets give people a voice yet at the same time silence them.

Q: This isn't about protecting small content creators, it's about protecting big brands/advertisers.
If this was really about small creators then a change would be implemented that ONLY effected them, not the whole entire site. All the news channels, political stuff, scams, horrible vids, are being disliked for a reason. If you are able to see these dislike attacks as you claim then remove them. hide the counter for that video, or just turn off ratings. 


Q: YouTube is doing this in response to YouTube Rewind 2018 
Please see above.
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This change is actually dangerous. I use Youtube for a lot of tutorials, tutorials specifically covering esoteric topics that could have an element of danger are especially bad. What happens if I search for how to remove a light switch, if a tutorial so poorly made it could cause bodily harm to the person following it, now that the ratio is removed how are we suppose to know from looking at it that the information is good? The dislike ratio is good for screening out potentially dangerous bad information.

This change is dangerous
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I'm sorry but 



.. getting rid of is ridiculous it lets you know if something is good or bad there aren't targeted dislike things is there a way to opt out of this
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The fact that this has 439 NEGATIVE replies should show you what kind of reaction everyone is having. The fact that nobody looks at this place yet we are all collectively dumping on you should be a massive clue, google.

Stop being inept for a few second to listen to your audience. This is the most terrible thing you could have ever done to this platform. You are a toothless dog.
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Zensur im Internetzeitalter. So beginnt Faschismus. Grund genug mich öfters auf Alternativen umzusehen.
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Bring back the dislike button, I won't even know now if the video is good or is it a scam or what. A dislike number was a good indication if the video was good or if it was a scam.
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i do not agree to this dislike removal when the expression of opinion is to be seen to know where everyone stands
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👎  It's obviously increasing our dependence on recommendation algorithms as opposed to manual keyword research
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This is a horrible idea, without the like/dislike ratio how can we tell what type of quality to expect?
Punishing all your customers because a few bad cases where creators got attacked is the worst way of handling this. That does not happen for the large majority of content on YouTube. There are much better ways of handling this, eg. allowing to like/dislike only if you watched most of the video, allowing creators to disable dislikes per video but should be on by default (similar solution as we currently have for comments).
Also when you're doing this kind of experiments, users should have to opt in and not be forced into it or at least be notified that we are being added to an experiment and provide a link for feedback.
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This is a great update. Please ignore all of the cry babies!
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This is censorship, this is wrong, they never listen, we can only pray they will, but we know they won't.

-Edit: I want my name on here so they know i'm not a bot.
I am Lyle Lagi, and I will not partake in the platform any further if this isn't stopped.
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Listen, I get it, you guys love money, and brands give you money. But by doing this action you are just hurting your userbase, the dislike count helps viewers figure out if information is true or false or avoid harmful content. By removing the dislike count you just show how little you care about your users and your community, you only want the brands to be happy and not let people express their opinions of brand made content. By showing your true feelings and actions you just make people want to move to other platforms and interact with yours less. At least for me, once a viable website that is similar to yours pops up, I will move all of my content and subscriptions to there in a heartbeat. You have made too many decisions that your community does not want in such a short span of time. I truly do not understand why you don't want to just make an option where users can turn on or off the dislike count. Your only defense so far has been "We can't" when you most certainly can. Thank you for making bad choices constantly,
Yours truly,
June
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This change will put people at waste users time, money and potentially put viewers at physical risk.  One of my primary use cases for YT is learning from DIY/crafting/home improvement creators. The dislike ratio was my primary filter for identifying potentially dangerous or videos that depict the incorrect way to perform a task - encouraging me to read the comments for more details.  Adding the need for a reason for the dislike would still enable capturing this data, but would make it lest desirable to pile on a dislike pile.  This is going to significantly, and negatively, impact my YT usage.
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Hiding from public view the number of dislikes a video has received is a pretty ill-conceived idea based upon the reasons that YouTube has provided. Disliking a video is a fairly benign/mild way of expressing dissatisfaction of content. By keeping the comment section open but eliminating the public's ability to view total dislikes you are essentially incentivizing people to actually comment on videos expressing their disapproval and those will defininetly be much more hostile/critical than simply hitting a button. Of course, maybe that is by design and YouTube will eventually have grounds to remove comments and there will be no ability to express dissent on the platform that is in public view. I think major corporate and political interests would be most pleased with the decision you made here.
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Hi. This is a really bad change and I disagree with it. My only feedback for you would to be to revert back to enabling public dislikes.
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just one question WHY you keep on saying that it doesnt effect view count so why change it now we cant go and see holy moly youtube did a stupid once more
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this is blatantly stupid, even the person who uploaded the first video to youtube agrees
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At least have us participate in a vote so it represents creators on Youtube.
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Please don't do this. It is going to hurt engagement in the long run (which metrics may not capture). At least for me, I'd not be willing to browse on youtube anymore as dislikes are a CRITICAL part of my decision as to what videos to spend time on, and it has worked REALLY WELL for me (specifically the like/dislike ratio, for me the ratio should be > 10 for something to be worth my time)

Surely there must be other ways to benefit the content creators that don't harm the rest of the community.
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This hurts discovery of new creators as well. What incentive does one have to go checkout a new content creator, when there is a risk that it is simply a waste of time.
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How will you deal with problematic video like cryto scam, nft scam, bad guides that can kill you, bad guide in general, misinformation etc. We can comment below but that's something that the video creator can censor/remove. They can construct make the top comment be positive like "i bought into this and made lots of money" or "this guide really work". With no measure of quality, how can we tell if a video is good? For example youtube rewind has 3mil likes, without the dislike available you can say that the video is overall positive. Just remove all the negative comment and bam, it's not the most dislike video but a video that everyone seems to love. With misinformation, and Scams rising up removing the dislike seems like a bad idea. I hope you find a way to deal with dislike bomb, but if you want to remove dislike, you have to find a way for people to measure a quality of a video. And comments can be Remove so it cant be a way to measure a video. Because you can hurt a lot more people with scams and misinformation than disliking a video.
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"If it helps, you can still dislike a video, and creators will see this feedback privately in Studio if they choose to look up the dislike count metric."

This is still terrible for a watcher. While the creator can see the feedback they get, there is no way for the viewer to know if it is a worthwhile video to watch. YouTube is not just about entertainment, which is highly subjective, but its also about educational videos. Removing dislikes doesn't tell the viewer if the educational video has merit to it. Who are we really protecting here from removing dislikes? The small creator? Or YouTube's watch time?
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Does it mean that Google / Youtube devs and AI algos are not smart enough to detect those coordinated "dislike attacks" (I guess mostly by teenagers who don't like particular styles of music)? I don't believe so.

Viewership isn't the right metric for the usefulness and good experience of the Viewer. Wasting time on poor videos will translate to a poor experience with Youtube, not with a particular video.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxOuG8jMIgI количество лайков и дизлайков показало отношение ваших пользователей к этой инициативе
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It's getting Ridiculous. I just got chewed out for liking a page in chat, for using 3 emojis. To like a page. I would be tossed off live chat for using 4 emojis.  Argued with a bot I suppose. Gone too far. Bots. Really demeaning. Creepy. Mr. B. Up in the sky.
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This is the beginning of your dying
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This is an absurd update. The dislike function was extremely usefull for deciding if a video was good or not. The update only caters to big creators and the motion that it is for small creators is a lie that only you believe. Instruction videos will be 1000x harder to sort through if they're worth a watch or not. bring it back now.
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Cancel culture at its best. Instead of implementing a service to protect and help good content creators you are forcing people into their own filter bubble. There better ways but then YouTube would need to hire people to work .....
There are "creators" out there publishing the biggest nonsense, now nobody can that this is bullshit at first glance. Will my algorithms adapt like "people who disliked this videos also disliked this?"
Next step: 5 minute advertisement for everyone who uses the dislike button, comments will be always private and every video you watch 0,1 s will be liked.
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yeah like how are you supposed to remove the dislike button, while there is an option for it to be removed
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Removing the public dislike count interferes with a viewers opportunity to gauge the video prior to watching, imagine you went to a movie, but wanted to read a review to see if it's worth your money, but you can't because the bad reviews are hidden and thus gives you a twisted view.
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Honestly fewer people are going to use the dislike button, not because of so-called "dislike mobs," but rather that to the viewer, the dislike button seems "disabled" to them because the counter changed.
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How did this even got 1680 upvotes, this is the most absurd update I have ever seen on youtube, we had the dislike count for 16 years without a problem and now we are going to remove it when NO ONE ever asked for it? This is the best way to tell if the video, giveaway, tutorial actually worked and because some of the backlashes gotten and we are just going to remove it without anyone able to say their opinion except that your "experiment you did". why don't we remove the video uploading video feature to stop inappropriate content on youtube? Why don't we remove comments to stop "Targeted Cyberbullying"???
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     Do not follow through with this change, the overwhelming majority do not want this change. Listen to your actual community please, leave dislikes as is.
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May you all at Youtube make it possible to not only make the statistical info invisible to the public, but also to the individual channels themselves, voluntarily, of course? 

Thanks,
Blynk
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is there anything that the people of the new world do like? this is not censorship that is ridiculous this is nothing more than greater privacy for creators big or small . and the bottom line is that it just REALLY ISN'T important in any regard
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YouTube seems to have done a similar thing with comments a long time ago. At least I haven't seen any comments with a negative score in years.
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Thank you #Youtube team. I am happy to hear that we are not forced to only like creators content. I know how to tie a knot one handed and how to tell if food is cooked, yet the social media is only a week old for me. Continuing on with the hate talk someone above me typed, we should all hate crime. I am still grateful for knowledge.
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when I received this email I immediately cancelled my YouTube premium subscription which I have so far paid north of $1,200 since its inception (my account plus others).  This removal removes the entire reason l browse YouTube for academic tutorials and mechanical repair. This essentially removes the ability for a person to discern from a poor quality academic Post in a good one. You have had no response to this so I have canceled.
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if only u did this update long ago...
  1.  but the time has pasted :T but still "great job youtube" but now this doesnt make any sense now youtube
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This is the dumbest decision in the history of YouTube. This IS transparently about protecting brands, governments, and clickbait content. A decision made by ignorant, foolish corporate blowhards so out of touch with their community that they're practically on another planet. EVIL.

YOU ARE NOT THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH, GOOGLE
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This is by definition a form of censorship. We have to draw a line somewhere if they take away the dislikes who's to say they can't do the same to comment's. The dislikes is what makes youtube unique to other platforms, its what helps me decide which video's have genuinely good content and which are harmful, deceiving or just a waste of time. It also helps those who are young or easily mislead identify positive videos, we are increasingly see videos with clickbait titles and thumb nails targeted at children with very disturbing content and scams. The likes and dislike help them identify which video they can trust. If you remove this dislikes you make it easier for the young and easily manipulated to be preyed on. Please don't make the mistake of other platforms.
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You terminate my account for doing nothing and why is the ad now 10 seconds and cannot be skipped
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i dont like it. i dont like the way this is going. also with the AI and algorithms controlling us. makes us believe we where part of something when we wasnt and it doesnt register and completely removing the kids too.. why remove the whole community because of a few trolls, personally regulate it instead.. nobody like this, why are you doing this to us? and where is the humanity in this
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Ah yes, remove something that can be removed by content creators themselves.
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i have a problem with that dislike thing
i can't see any video dislikes nor mine that i am an creator
my friends can see dislikes but i can't
also i have sisters account and she can see dislikes and i can't see

this is problem to me because i watch tutorials and i canno't tell if it is real or fake
fix that for me
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I am so upset with you tube and google. I will tell every place possible do not waste your money or time with YouTube tv. They offer 7day trial period but they lie. I was charged on day 5 and they won’t refund money. I do not like companies who are dishonest with their customers. I guess that’s why you can’t reach them by phone! So disgusted with them and google!
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This is a bad move as it will make it much harder to choose tutorial videos. The dislike count was a way to filter out bad tutorials.
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Well, I'm thinking to cancel my premium membership.

But I'm totally OK with hiding dislike count for whatever reason you think reasonable, as long as you will add functionality, at least for premium users, to tune recommendations based on like/dislike ratio:
e.g. - don't recommend videos that have more than X% dislikes
or - don't recommend videos that have more than X count dislikes
or - don't recommend videos that have more than X count of votes and Y% of dislikes.

Seems reasonable for me. No dislike attack or whatever you reason. But still I won't see unpleasant/non-conformist/illegal/stressful videos.
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You're denying us our small ability to express ourselves on youtube, now I get to have to watch shitty videos with no inclination of their usefulness, you sick people. It's the closest we have to a public forum, don't do this you bastards, you corporate-bought (owned actually, google and youtube aren't our friends) sellouts
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I like the fact everyones exploding because of this change but the dislike count hasent been disabled yet. Maybe this could be a prank?
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I have an idea! If the issue is specifically with small creators getting dislike-bombed, then maybe they could have it so that once you meet some kind of condition, you can enable the dislike count! Like if you get a certain amount of subscribers, or if your channel has been around for a certain length of time! And once you meet the conditions, you would be notified, and be allowed to show the dislike count!
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bro this is the best update ever!!!!!!
I can't wait to spend 7 hours to find an obscure tutorial which all the rest are scams!!!!!
thank you google yyou money-hungry company!!!! i love getting my data stolen by some multi billion dollar company which never listens to customer feedback!!!
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This is dumb it's just small creators that can't handle criticism if you can't deal with it then go to tik tok
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Matt Koval LIED: 2:52 "and keep in mind other platforms don't even have a Dislike button"
What other platform encourages members through "unpopular" means.
The lying upsets me. That is dishonest.
Up to NO good.

As a premium paying member as soon as my counter get's hidden I am cancelling the subscription  and and not going sign in not with statistics obscured to the viewer.  The statistical elements are going on my network  blockist that i use with Adblock, so I won't see the likes as  I won't be able to MAKE ANY SENSE OUT OF THEM anymore. I'd say not worth the premium let the adverts pay for it.

This isn't about liking or disliking this "change" it is about principle? Would you shop on Amazon with no negative feedback counters?  

There is a line been crossed here .

I cannot trust or have confidence in a platform that is going to do that. I would never join such a platform or expect this to happen ever. I find that spammy behaviour at the worst, when trying to look for good content only to find every video "positive" even the misleading and spammy ones (with the more dislikes hidden) with no warning. This puts me at TOTAL DISADVANTAGE but FULLY OPEN TO ABUSE by any content creator who wants to abuse it in a way whilst complying with the rules of the platform.

What good does it do to the viewer? Nothing it puts them at further disadvantage in hiding information that may depend.

The excuses you put are just plain crap. Yes there is a problem so reform the feedback system in a way that doesn't affect the viewers ability to view the statistics like before.   I have seen what happens with bullying, one of them was paid dislikes and EEVBLOG and Thunderf00t did a video on when they were targetted and now there are bots to deal with it.

Hiding the statistics to the viewer who may depend on them, downright, dishonest, deceptive and very deceptive/misleading. 

A call from an engineer to reform the system rather than hiding the statistics and doesn't put the viewer at a disavantage. How about that? For example, make it so that the viewer can only vote with their first comment to influence the vote counters. If it is abusive or irrational then the content creator can review to have it removed. They can't dislike without their being a reason. Now that is fair to everyone than being kept in the dark and even spam and msileading videos that do comply with the rules being made to look good at first despite there being mass disapproval.

At the same time might not want to do that, are there no engineers left to do it? sack them and get the graphics desgns in and content creators. And I am Premium for it.

For spammers and scammers that do comply with the rules like the DiyPower scams that I have seen what good is negative feedback going to do to "improve their content" when they know they what they're and doing full or crap? They're not going to care so the STATISTICS IS USELESS TO THEM.

Despite there being options to switch the ratings off, what good is the negative feedback going for mental health if they can still see it in secret? That they are being targetted. Well if they are frightened of everyone knowing about it with genuine disapproval then they are obviously up to do no good. 

I do not believe your research and there is no excuse to remove it when you could reform the feedback system to one that will show all the statistics.

Here's a joke: Why not HIDE the dislike counters for the content creators for  when they sign in so they won't feel so "embarassed"? It sound's ridiculous doesn't it but no different this mockery of the feedback system to the viewer.

It reminds me of the research the BBC did over 10 years ago about the annoyance of on screen logos present on certain channels and the clap trap was that many viewer didn't  notice it but it was helpful at the same time. Despite the outcry for those that notice it more than the video they were watching.

Update to YouTube's dislike count:
""17/11/21 01:48 Views: 1562046   Comments: 97034  UP:    14k  DOWN:  157k   1:11.2  out ratioed by 10+

143 THOUSAND people can't be wrong on this but of course they're not going to know about the geniune disapproval with the negative counter hidden in that video. It's going to look 14 THOUSAND+ POSITIVE. Misleading Spammy behaviour. For the first time in Youtube's history every video is going to look POSITIVE to the viewer even the spammy or disapproved  content.

Deceptive, and pure utter nonsense and bad behaviour coming from Youtube staff. Even one of your founders agree's it is not a good change especially for the viewer, in fact it is BULLYING for content creator who say they don't want their viewers not to see the dislike counters on their video.

Now turning into a  undemocratic selfish platform that bully's it's content creators and viewers but by "experimenting on them first" dishonestly and them make assumptions that it will be fine and nothing if wrong etc.
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Notice how there is only an UPVOTE (1895) button and no DOWNVOTE button despite there being helpful (826) / Unhelpful (1934) buttons.  where 1934 pople found it unhelpful. On the profile page of Meaghan it all UPVOTE buttons.

I didn't realize the platform was turning into this where they only UPVOTE posts instead of downvoting them despite genuine disapproval like the apparently high 1934 unhelpful counter.

It makes sense  to me now "Matt Koval" says in that video 2:52 Other platforms don't even have dislike buttons. Maybe means here, this place and it doesn't look old to me either.

I remembered some people recommending using Hotmail for spam 20 years ago.

Looks to me like the same thing is about to happen to every video and post by youtube staff. It is going to look all POSITIVE guaranteed by the counters they set except for the reality of the comments but that could be fixed with paid commenting when that becomes a thing.

"Update to YouTube's dislike count" Matt Koval Youtube video STATS:
16/11/21 20:46 Views: 1538537   Comments: 95834  UP: 14k DOWN: 152k ratio  1:10.857  out ratioed by 10
17/11/21 01:48 Views: 1562046   Comments: 97034  UP: 14k DOWN: 157k ratio  1:11.2    out ratioed by 11
17/11/21 03:35 Views: 1578145   Comments: 97563  UP: 14k DOWN: 159k ratio  1:11.357  out ratioed by 11

The statistics above SPEAK for themselves in that video. Greater than the looking "empty"  so called research and the LIE that other platforms don't even have dislike buttons  How do I know this so called research they already lied about other platforms not having dislike buttons oh and the OTHER lie or out of touch... that "we will all get use to it quickly."

Here's a joke: The people running this platform doing this or (mockery of the feedback system) probably think there are naturally born with an IQ so high that they are self entitled/privileged to do what they please and that everybody is all wrong and they correct. They even think they know the content creators and viewers better than themselves, democracy and mass opposition is below their level of thinking and therefore  doesn't apply to them.... the arrogance and mentality.


This is dumb it's just small creators that can't handle criticism if you can't deal with it then go to tik tok

It looks to me like these making the decisions may actually be the "small creators" in this so called Youtube creator's team, Look at Matt Koval, he has been with the platform since 2006, not as much content compared to many others but to be fair he was quite a well respected person in his own channel and subscribers.

17/11/21 04:22 Views: 1582889   Comments: 97797 UP: 14k DOWN: 160k ratio  1:11.428  out ratioed by 11
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You don`t care small creators the algorithm do not even recommend their videos.  This censorship only have economic purposes...
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I want to open public shows my videos
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2018 - 2021: Google Chrome ends its war on address bar URLs for now.
2021 Google/Youtube STARTS WAR over viewers and ratings.
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My new videos are facing low impressions. I can't share any videos in the community tab
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Bring back the dislike count and ratio.
Stop censoring comments.
Retain the title of videos that get deleted so we know what it was.
Stop playing random videos automatically after a playlist reaches its end.
Stop asking for age verification, especially with ID or Creditcard.
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the people see right trough your lies.
You're digging your own grave and ensuring it will be covered in manure.
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Please make it possible to see the dislike count again.
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so because we dont get a dislike ratio i can no longer quickly identify and skip bad videos
this is going to be very time consuming for everyone and so much bad content is going to come up because now it doesnt matter.
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2018 - 2021: Google Chrome ends its war on address bar URLs for now
2021 Youtube STARTS WAR on viewers and ratings.
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I understand why you are making the change, however, you have removed my ability to filter out content of low value. If there were better tools available to let me know that a video was created by a bot or spammer, I would consider resuming my YouTube subscription.
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This is an awful idea, creators STILL have access to the dislikes so the whole point you're making seems invalid... it only makes the viewers experience worse.
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uploaders can still see the dislike  count so why would people brigading a video to mass dislike stop? this is a truly awful change just listen to everyone and revert this
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This is an awful move !!
Youtube still having dislikes was quite big in why i liked youtube, very useful when looking for tutorials, documentaries, etc.
I guess I will have to move somewhere else (but not quite an equivalent :( )
A 0 to 5 note would be even better !
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"Q: This isn't about protecting small content creators, it's about protecting big brands/advertisers.

A: We see why some folks might think that though it’s absolutely not the case. We are making the dislike count private to protect our creators by reducing targeted dislike attacks on their channels"

If that's true why not only implement this for small, independent channels? (still a bad idea but marginally better) Let EA, Nintendo, Sony, the US Govt, CNN, YouTube, etc. deal with the dislikes, I think they are more than capable of handling it. But that wouldn't work since your real intention is protecting the corporations, and why wouldn't you? They make you way more money than all the sub-1000 subscriber channels combined
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Here is why this sucks 

I fix my bike chain watching a video with a good 2K likes but comments are disabled

I trust the video

I drive bike

I die

 Why?

That video had 10K dislikes because that video was a false video and you hid that important information


See how absurd this move is, you killed me because you hid a crucial information from me
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Creator here. This is a horrible implementation. There are many other viable alternatives to helping creators' mental health if that is truly your goal. Generally, dislikes are the LEAST of our concerns. Hurtful and hateful comments are a far worse problem.

But the main issue here is wasting viewers time. When I click on a tutorial video that is 15 minutes long, I want to know AT A GLANCE whether it is worth my time or not.
If I see a video with:
10,000 views - 1000 likes - 4000 dislikes - I can easily assume that video is PROBABLY NOT worth my time

If I see a video with:
10,000 views - 1000 likes - Dislike - I'm likely going to end up wasting my time.

And no, going to the comments is not an actual solution. Comments can be deleted. Comments can be disabled.

You all need to take this back to the drawing board and come up with something that'll actually help.
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YouTube studios works video watching allow ask
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Not a good decision. For me it was an easy way to see if the video was a scam or if wrong informations were present. I like the idea of getting rid of harrassment, but I also need a way to see if the information that is said in the video is right. I don't read the comments under the videos because some are just nonsense. We need an easy alternative that allows YouTube consumers to evaluate the relevance of the videos.
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This is utter garbage YouTube.  It's clearly motivated by politics and advertisers (who typically don't seem to understand the platform and end up getting ridiculed and disliked), and clearly being hidden behind the pretense that small creators are being harmed by dislikes ('proven' by you in a 'study' I can not find anywhere).  

The bottom line is that if people (myself included) make crap videos then they should get dislikes, and if people are looking for a video on a topic they should be able to see a disliked video at a glance and be able to ignore it without wasting their time watching it.  

What's more, the comment section on a video is likely far more toxic than the dislike count - so why is that staying?  Not that it should go, because for many creators the comments section is the 'community' of their channel... but how long until you remove that too under the pretense of it hurting creators?  Wrapping people in bubble wrap makes them more fragile, not more resilient.

Oh - and other platforms don't even have dislikes?  Seriously?  Lbry (Odysee) has one, Bitchute has one.  Most other video sharing platforms I looked at have them.  Are you comparing apples to oranges and meaning Twitter doesn't have one?  Because that's not a valid argument.

Please see sense - almost nobody wants this change - listen to the community, listen to the creators... listen to common sense.
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What a horrible idea. I'm starting to like YouTube less and less every day.
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I hate this. Add others have said, how am I supposed to know if a video is crap?
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"Our experiment data showed a reduction in dislike attacking behavior"... What did you expect? There is no point for people to click the dislike button cause no one else can see it. I clicked it to signal my dis-interest of the video to other people. Statistically speaking, your data is going to be even more flawed in that less people are willing to hit the dislike button for videos that they didn't enjoy. This will prompt creators to keep doing what they are doing and not trying to improve because of bad like/dislike ratio.  What ever research ya'll did has some bias. If your real mission was to help with dislike attacks, you would have removed both like and dislike feature to prevent people from seeing the ratio, rather than leaving the like button. 

Pretty sure the real motive is advertisement revenue. Less likely for people to click off the video while the advertisement is playing because they saw the like/dislike ratio. Now, people have to watch the ad(s) and the video to determine if it was worth watching.
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I just noticed the changes where before getting drawn into Clickbait videos, I'd look to the dislike count to avoid them, but now I can't tell the difference between Clickbait/ Problematic Videos vs Videos I like.

WE NEED AN ALTERNATIVE TO YOUTUBE, THIS SUCKS, we are obviously not being heard 😔😞😓
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WOW I've been wondering why I've been seeing so many Clickbait Videos and it's because I was overlooking the Dislike Count. How can I now tell the difference between videos "Problematic Videos I want to Avoid" vs "Content I could Like" ahead of time? WE ARE NOT BEING HEARD😞, is there any alternative to YouTube we can support😔?
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I want to get update
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Sir please send our video to the public please sir will go to the public only then our video spelling also and you youtube channel
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This is ridiculous, literally nobody asked for this.  Removing features from YouTube that essentially the entire user base enjoys is just stupid.  Seriously makes me want to just go to odysee instead.
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મારી ચેનલ લાઈવ નથી કરી શકતી તો કરો
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FUCK YOU FUCK YOU YOUTUBE I WILL WATERBOARD SUSAN
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Yet another good reason to avoid youtube, since this interferes with my ability to quickly assess which videos on technical things are worth watching.
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what a bunch of pussies
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Bring back the dislikes.
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this is terrible. how can I see now if video is worth my time? also as creator I wont be able to use dislike to see if my video is good because nobody will bother to dislike a video when nobody sees it. horrible update, please take it back ASAP
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Downvote. I want the count back.
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Oh wow this is a big safety issue with DIY videos... feel like I can't trust YouTube anymore for instructional or educational content.  This definitely opened the floodgates for click baiters and ads for large corporations.
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Give me my dislike count back!
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Hello sir/maam 
I have a different issue I'm a new creator on  YouTube I just start creating videos from last month my channel's name is thrusky and now a days I'm suffering with a problem on sudden like droppage I mean whenever I use to upload videos on YouTube with in few minutes I use to got 15 to 18 likes and then suddenly after 2-3 hours my likes disappears from youtube and studio as well can you please tell me what's the issue behind it
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Guys even the founder of YouTube dis aggrees😡
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Look at this overwhelmingly negative response. How can you stand there and continue to nod your head at this Injustice? It's no wonder why everybody on Earth hates you!!!!!!!
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Wow, this new like/dislike system is terrible. Now I can't see in the first second which video is clickbait. Good job YT. Yet another disastrous decision to maker people unsatisfied and angry. The one who proposed this new like/dislike system should get fired and put in jail. 0/10
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What a fucking garbage company. Youtube is doing this purposely to try and enable predators because they are a bunch of pedophiles.
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This is complete garbage. And your replies to the questions are also complete garbage. This is cowardly censorship and silencing people to advance corporate and specific agendas. The dislike count is there for measuring people’s opinions. It helps THE VIEWERS gauge if they should invest time watching a certain video or if the ideas or the message being shared is effective or not. I will NEVER buy any services or products from YouTube as a result of this change.
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You are not doing this to help small creators. This is an attempt to silence viewers so you can pocket more cash. Shame on you for your lies. Shame on you for ignoring your viewers. Your platform will now be a haven for misinformation, scams, dangerous content, and more. You can no longer feign ignorance of the consequences, as you have been warned by tens of thousands. Your team needs to be held criminally liable for each and every instance where someone is harmed.
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I think you missed the point here. The dislike button is not nessesarily important to inform the creator of the video if it is bad or good, it is important to communicate to other watchers if we agree or not. Writing a comment is not allways possible, for example if they are turned off or cencored.
So no it is not a way to improve the experiance.
If you realy want to keep it that way, than pls remove the like button to because in this state it is utterly useles
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I just noticed this today. As a YouTube viewer I want to see that like/dislike ratio instantly to get an idea if the video is worth watching, and as a YouTube small content creator I want to instantly see both approval and disapproval ratios! With this new change it takes about 5 clicks or so to get to the analytics page and set the date to "lifetime" that will show actual likes and dislikes. 

If you want to derail the numbers gamers, you  should remove the "Like" count also and just have a gauge slider or color gradient bar between the two thumbs, that way people can see if a video is generally approved of or not, but the total number of votes isn't known so people trying to manipulate the ratio won't have a specific goal to reach. And the counts will automatically show for the creators when they are logged into their own channel.

Another thing you could do is to disable the thumbs up/down buttons UNTIL a certain percentage of the video has been watched like 10% to 25% or so with a 1 minute minimum etc? That way people and bots that are trying to manipulate the counts can't just pop in and click a button, they actually have to watch some of it to judge it?
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Please bring back the visible dislike count. The dislike count along with the like count is important for my ability to evaluate whether content is worthwhile.

The "Like" count is essentially worthless without the context of dislikes. It is the ratio of likes to dislikes that makes that Like count worthwhile.

Either disable both likes and dislikes or bring back dislike as a visible counter.

I plan to start migrating away from YouTube if this kind of changes are your long term strategy.
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I've already written lengthy comments on the YouTube comments but basically you are dismissing your community's genuine opinions as hate, censoring our voices and leaving us at the mercy of big corporations that act wrong and don't listen to their customers. This  move is only meant to protect your advertisers, everyone sees your lies. Just check the discount ration on your YouTube video! This is precisely why you want to erase it, so that people don't know how out of touch with your community and dictatorial you are!
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Getting rid of the dislike count for public is an absolutely terrible idea. It was a good way to see if guides and tutorial videos were helpful and worthwhile. How am I supposed to tell if its useful if there's a lack of comments or if comments are disabled? Youtube is making a huge mistake.
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It seems that many feel the team is either willfully ignoring or are simply unable to grasp the crux of the community's concerns regarding the removal of this feature.

As users often see the dislike count as a way to quantify viewers' displeasure with the content which can be used to gauge how much the creator or company responds to community feedback and how, for lack of a better term off the top of my head, 'honest' the creator or company by the number of dislikes compared to the views/like of the posts hence the suspicion that its to protect youtube's official videos and those of large companies being a key concern. This also includes tutorials or low-budget documentaries (the kind that are more akin to someone talking about what they like than a college research paper given a script) and if the information is useful for the audience.

Additionally, wouldn't it be relatively easy to track if people that watch video X or view community post Y and then within a time frame see that they have a drastically higher chance of disliking post Z and use that to see if it's a targeted attack? Youtube is owned by Google so the odds that the software required for such a task is already in your possession is fairly high maybe even regulating such exemption for users below a certain threshold of viewers or subs to maximize the good-faith people can give to the change.

(Small side note: The Rewind incident was more about youtube ignoring/shrugging off community concerns and many viewed the dislike counter as a way to get youtube's attention so the answer regarding that may come off as a tad tone-deaf to some just FYI)
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Hey. This one goes out to the complete morons who made this decision. I personally wanted to say, that you are all morons and what you are doing goes against the 1st Amendment. You can take your Nazi Commie liberal snowflake GARBAGE somewhere else. You are the definition of human TRASH. To anybody that made assisted in making this decision possible. I hope and pray to god that you & your familys all suffer unimaginably. Have a good day ya brain dead scumbag idiots.
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This is quite honestly the dumbest change I have ever seen in my life.

Publicly being able to judge the quality of a video and/or the subjects in the video at the onset is a matter of tremendous importance for most viewers.

Without being able to see DISLIKES the count of LIKES is quite honestly useless.

A video with 3000 LIKES and 0 DISLIKES looks the same as a video with 300 LIKES and 300,000 DISLIKES.

That you don't understand the utility of that is fantastical to me, and clearly indicates this is a move to protect a particular subset of content creators who constantly get ratioed because they are not popular.

They are not popular for a REASON and by doing this you literally give more incentive to an alternate video platform that I honestly think CAN'T COME QUICK ENOUGH at this point.
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YouTube must implement for the viewers to know dislikes this is like giving us rock instead of chocolate, I hate to watch video which isn't really helpful and yo know we don't want others to watch it too so to make thing easier dislike is really important in a content, Nobody likes hate speech with thousands of likes it's so stupid YouTube made this changes hope they make changes with the dislike button to be visible it would be great but as of now I am not satisfied 😒, We want dislike button just know this  everyone is  not born same.
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How I am supposed to know if a tutorial is worth watching? This is a massive use case for me and the problem is there hasn't been any competitor because youtube did a really good job with tutorials until now. Not to say how this benefits the spread of fake information. What is the ratio of unfair dislike bombing to fake information videos? 1 to 10,000? Really awful job yt...
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This is the worst thing that has ever happened in the history of YouTube, hiding dislikes will only help spread false information, scams, scummy big companies and corrupt politicians. 
THIS IS CENSORSHIP.
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Imagine being full of yourself that you think you're doing something for the community when in reality you're just bending over backwards to your corporate and government overlords. Shame on you, Youtube.
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This is just so we the people can't see how society actually feels about certain things when checking videos.

COVID19 news... Vaccination pushes.. all have crazy dislike to like ratios...

This has absolutely nothing to do with mental health of content creators as they still see the dislikes...

This is hilariously pathetic I will now be using d.tube ... yes people.. thats the website url d.tube... go there if you want a better platform.. we use youtube.. by choice.
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Imagine trusting youtube....

This is entirely not for small content creators...

You can already disable showing likes and dislikes...

This is literally to allow likes to show up but not dislikes giving a distorted public opinion on numerous topics and this isnt about content creators at all...

Most of this censorship garbage nonsense you have been doing the past 2 years is hardly related to small content creators.

Choke on a dick.
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Your FAQ is as fake as the scams that will benefit from this decision.
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This is the worst decision that youtube made. It's not even helping anyone, It's just Silencing and censoring voices! Is that what you wanted to do all along  youtube?
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Darn, 
Maybe make them available just for tutorial videos? Please...
Creators can maybe mark them as "tutorials" which could make it visible.
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Not a great way to treat the community that makes your business possible. I don't know how a fundamental change like this was pushed through without widespread consultation with viewers and creators. This problem definitely could have been solved without sacrificing usability and trust in the platform.
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Why are you takling money from me when i dont even have a acount here 
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Yeah, we all see how *some* people are not happy about this decision, just look at the like-dislike ratio of the video by Matt Koval... And also the comment and FAQ you posted, it's clear.
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Every comment on here is incorrect they are doing this to protect the liberal agenda you can no longer see how bad the President is disliked or whatever propaganda they are trying to push. It's basic Hitler tactics welcome to the future where the facts are conspiracy theorys and white supremacists are the #1 threat and not the border not ANTIFA not BLM hey everyone let's fight racism with more racism 🤪 let's undo everything MLK faught for
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Reputo questa mossa una forma di censura. Auspico che ci sia presto una nuova piattaforma che sostituisca youtube se questa continuerà ad essere la vostra Politica.
Gli utenti sono la vostra ricchezza. Chi sceglie di vedere un video lo fa anche in base ai dislike.
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You are definately not helping smaller accounts.
You are helping scammers who are making scam tutorials. Maybe you are sharing the profit which they get from scamming people now?
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This is very frustrating you need to bring the dislike button back it's very important how am I supposed to know if a video is good if I can't see the dislikes
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You fools are trying to create this ‘utopia’ where everything has to be ‘good’ or ‘liked’. Get off whatever you’re smoking and understand that the world is it not this way. Agreeing and disagreeing is part of life. This garbage decision by your mentally challenged team is to serve specific interests and groups. A suppression of free speech and a cowardly act through and through.
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Probably the worst possible decision ever made by youtube. 
You call this "promote respectful community"?? more like encouraging disrespectful contents, clickbaits, misleading videos, and all sorts of bad videos that everyone hates. With the like and dislike counts, viewers at least have an idea whether the video is good or bad before watching. We don't want to waste our time watching dogsh*t videos until we realize the videos are not what we were looking for. Any content posted on youtube should be judged by the viewers publicly.
Youtube is now only protecting bad contents. This should never have happened.
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do you have any data? i have never seen a single instance of a “dislike mob”.
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Name a single content creator who asked for this change, YouTube team.
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So, How To Avoid Harmful Attacks?
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How can I see if the tutorial on anything is actually worth the watch nor a scam nor an ad ? I'm watching tutorials professionally cause I'm a dev and Ioosing time is loosing money guys.
Disable the dislike count is something, but hiding the ratio like / dislike is really REALLY not a good idea. For the viewers for obvious and annoying reasons AND for the small creators. The angry comments will rise, upvoted by angry viewers not able to share their feelings to the community (who just had to click the dislike button before), hiding the helpful comments.
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[RU Lang]
В ваших исследованиях на основе статистики легче лёгкого упустить важные детали влияющие на ваш сервис, и это еще при изменении функционала затрагивающее миллиард человек.

Если же вы хотите сделать что-то для ваших пользователей, с вашей точки зрения так называемые "улучшения", то может прежде всего стоит спросить самих пользователей, а действительно ли это "улучшение" им нужно?

Вот так сейчас и получается, что для ~10% это хорошая вещь, а для ~40% это лишь неудобство.


Моё мнение таково, что теперь нет возможности ускоренно оценить полезность информативного видео, и канала в целом. Вероятно если вам так не хочется отказываться от новой функции скрытия дизлайков, тогда поставьте на её место что-то взамен. К примеру можете посмотреть на систему отзывов в Steam ( Valve ).
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Hello, we have a small channel and i would like to see the dislikes, and to be able to see how many people disliked my videos, this helps me improve and for people to see our good videos on first glance ... how can we enable the dislikes back ?
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if this is about small creators, then why not enable it only on small channels and leave it enabled on big channels?

The fact that you are enabled everywhere and not exclusively for small creators indicates that this is not about them. 


Besides, what about protecting your users from scammers and multi-level marketing?!
reporting is not good enough for this. But community dislike worked excellent to prevent this.
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Absolutely ridiculous. You have multiple issues on your website, especially with the abundance of easily accessible scams, and now you've removed the one way we could easily know what's complete BS?

No wonder your own video announcing it got nearly 220,000 dislikes just today.

Why couldn't you make the counter visible by default and then allow creators to hide it?
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How many people have come forward with this issue? Somehow I doubt this issue is as large as you've made it to be. I want to see the study published for everyone to see. If you can't provide good enough evidence as to how and why taking away the number of dislikes as public information will protect creators, then this is not about what the people want. This is about what you want for the people. Clearly, most of us don't like this change, but it doesn't matter. You're going to keep doing whatever you want instead of serving the people who line your pockets.
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Hi. I just wanted to compliment you and tell you that i really enjoy youtube. I think that it was a very positive and healthy decision to remove dislikes ( nothing good comes from them). Thank you very much youtube.
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I want to complain about this as it makes it incredibly difficult to distinguish between good and bad videos. I use YouTube a lot for tutorials and creators have a complete range in knowledge and abilities. The dislike button made it easy to see which videos would likely be useful. This is a mistake and will make a lot of people leave YouTube for other learning platforms.
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I think a strike against YouTube might be coming sometime soon about this decision
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Hi. I just wanted to compliment you and tell you that i really enjoy youtube. I think that it was a very positive and healthy decision to remove dislikes ( nothing good comes from them). Thank you very much youtube.
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I uplod 990 video but i have no any views
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What's Next? Removing Comments? This is a REALLY stupid move and it doesn't affect small creators anyways and WHY IN THE FIRST PLACE?  And why did they remove it ENTIRELY at all?
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Hey, GIVE US DISLIKE COUNTER BACK! 

Now, do you understand what platform users & contents creation ask you, and please, fire that person who comes up with this "great" idea. 

Can you show a little respect for users, and include our voice in decision making, or you don't care about exclusivity, diversity, free speech and voice? 

Thank you.
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It's very clear youtube does not care about content creators and protecting users from fake videos. They say they're not censoring but who benefits from this? Protecting the well being of content creators is such a lousy excuse when they can already remove their dislike count publicly. It's clear so they are beholding to their advertising companies and cater to their every request. Revert this change.
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Why are you guys making so many stupid decisions that NO BODY asked for!?(For example: The Discussion Tab's removal) This will heavily impact video performance! Based on the amount of downvotes, you guys should probably cancel this choice before everyone yells at you for making such a terrible decision...or they'll yell at you now, that works, too.

Dislikes help you to know if a video is misleading or not worth my time. Take your guys' announcement video on this change for instance. See the dislike ratio on it? That means it's not worth my time.

To the people who replied to this announcement...Don't say to only effect small creators, we should WE suffer for your opinions!?
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You are protecting 'creators' but not thinking about the audience. There is always something that I hate about censorship, in many videos now the comments are disabled too. Youtube is not as fun and open to discussion as it use to be.
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haters can still make hate comments, are you gonna delete the entire comment section?
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PLS DON'T REMOVE THE DISLIKE BUTTON PLSSS YOU ARE MAKING THE PLATFORM A WORSE PLACE YOU ARE RUINING YOUTUBE BRUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. STOP IT !!!!! FIRST IS YOUTUBE SHORTS NOW IS THIS I DON'T GET IT WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU GUYS ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHH DOING FOR MONEY?????????
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Your FAQs are extremely unreassuring.

Public dislike count = credibility. You think big corporate and/or media channels will make efforts to improve if the opposition is just hidden and veiled?
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Of course YouTube may not know, but on YouTube you could always hide like/dislike ratio whenever you add a video, that was here for ages. At this point it looks just like Windows 11 reintroducing Windows 7/10 features but very, very restricted and broken and saying that it's a new feature with an honest face. The guy in Win 11 presentation looked almost like he's going to cry and go out because he doesn't want to present this. Same goes for the one in dislikes removal video, ironic.

If this is made "to protect small creators from harаssment", why would you leave the dislikes amount visible for them but not for viewers? I want my viewers to see the amount of dislikes on my video, preferably by default and I don't care about being harassed with this because it actually helped me to understand what was wrong with my videos.

Ask creators first with public results so everyone could see them, then change or don't change stuff according to feedback. Isn't it like, the basic rule for every public thing?

I'm going to put the real dislikes amount in the pinned comment for my videos now, thanks for making my life harder.
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stupid idea. now i cant tell if the video is a waste of my time without wasting my time...  stop trying to protect these snowflakes at all costs. you arent helping them in the long run, then need to grow thicker skin. making the service worse for 99% to make the 1% stop crying...

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this guy is right, they are using the small creators as an excuse. as if they really GAF.
This isn’t about small content creators. It’s almost certainly about big brands (advertisers) that hate it when their high budget movie/game/trailer/whatever gets publicly downvoted.
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Please bring back the dislike numbers
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I want to see dislikes count again! It was showing if video is useful or not
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Youtube, All Terminated Channels will be back?
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What the hell.  What's next? Is google going to  hide negative comments too.  

The like to dislike ratio is one of youtube's best indicators of what to watch.  I use it everyday when selecting if a video is worth my time.  It show's the level of engagement other viewers have.  By getting rid of the dislike count you a further isolating people into their bubble.  So from here on out I will subtract the number of likes from the number of views and use that as an estimate of dislikes.  

By the way getting rid of the dislike count IS A Form of Censorship.
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I know why YouTube itself had more disliked videos than other channels worldwide, so I personally giving a compliment to YouTube for more opinion matter for people about it. I don't care how much they disagree, but I want to respect them.
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Horrible decision on your part. Now I can not judge if a video is worth my time to watch. This is not Facebook or Instagram with a bunch of nonsense photo's. This platform provides a lot of quality information and a lot of lacking information. With out the ability of the viewers to rate a video how am I to judge if it is worth my time to watch?
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Definitely censorship. Prior to this change, I was able to properly find the videos I was looking for. The like/dislike ratio is very important for some of us. Also, the increasing amount of ads on youtube was already becoming annoying for me, but now this?
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TIME TO POST SCAMS ON YOUTUBE /s
thanks now, nobody will notice the shitty videos /s
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Personally, my experience is to watch the same old subscribers and stay away from new ones. In my experience that's not helping new creators. The like dislike button was an important way to asses the quality of a video that had maybe 1000 views. If I come across a video with 1000 views and 10 dislikes and 10 likes, maybe I would give it a shot. Now if I see 1000 views video tutorial with 10 likes only, I click X. In my experience that's not helpful for new creators is it? It's not an implementation that is thought through in my experience. And it will not help new creators. I am not the same as everybody, but definetely my experience with this new feature isn't unique either.
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I am18years old because of it my mini player is off please help me for this issue
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This is not about protecting creators, this is about FORCING viewers to watch adverts even though the actual video is very bad. And removing the actual number of dislikes from the public forces people who don't know its bad to still watch it. It's like removing safety fences from dangerous areas like cliff edges, quicksands and toxic or radioactive places!
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I strongly request Google/Youtube to re-activate the dislike-counter because it is a very important indicator, if a video is good or bad or has a certain importance or not.

Like and Dislike Counter are very common everywhere in the social media.

Re-activate it, immediately!
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I completely and wholeheartedly disagree. I'm so disappointed of YouTube....you guys were better than this
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Solution: give chan option to show/hide either dis/likes.  cause some chans dislike is very helpful, like tutorials ..... Often outcome is lesr evil (fot 'majorit'?) always more to create (way too spaciously layed out) comments, floodering! but srsly ....
what willl happen to the short futurama vid that was in neutral/balance dis/like for a decade+_.. :]
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I NEVER comment but, it would be remiss of me to stay silent on this.  The dislike button is a legitimate metric for users to QUICKLY assess the legitimacy/relevancy of certain types of videos.  It is a time saving tool for users who value finding niche videos & creators on the platform in a quick/efficient manner. Especially for genres like "how to's" & "fix it/repairs"...etc.  

If someone was in an emergency and needed to learn CPR, for instance, and clicked a top video that was a joke/ad video with +100K views and pushed by Youtube that mentioned CPR once instead of a legit, helpful video, then that would be valuable time wasted.  (Horrible example, but I'm sure there are better one's already stated) 

Seems YouTube could address "dislike attacks" (utter nonsense IMO) by improving internal systems; i.e., monitoring, eliminating bot/repeat accounts and just being an actual, moral, company that listens to it's community and creators.  

The direction these past few years is an utter joke, I can't even believe this company is a part of the innovative forward thinking Google/Alphabet Corp. with such backward direction lately (only look to twitter to see how this type of move plays out).

YouTube gives me Robinhood vibes; preaching about protecting users while bending to the corporation pressures they face behind the scenes.  The hypocrisy is belittling to the average user.  

Either own the decision for what it is, a move to appease sponsors and corporate backing, or revert it back to how it should be.
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I dislike this
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Absolute nonsense.
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I dislike your post YouTube
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What’s next, removing comments?
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Stop pretending this is about protecting small creators. What a load of rubbish! It only protects corporate intrests. Whoever makes these decissions should be fired! There's no 'YOU' in youtube anymore.
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Sir hamara watching time kyo ghat raha hai
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Live stream karne ke liye madad kar dijiye
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This is a terrible change. Please revert back and add dislike counts again. Nobody asked for this. Nobody wanted this. There is no good reason to take away public dislike counts.
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I do not support this change at all! First, as a YouTube viewer, I use the like/dislike ratio along with the view count to determine at first glance whether or not I want to watch a video. Taking that away is frustrating because Its wasting my time. All you're doing is encouraging click-bait thumbnails now. Second, as a small YouTube creator, I have no issue at all with the dislike counter being displayed. We all have the option to turn it off anyways so why are you forcing it on us? This should have at the very least been put up to a vote! This is YouTube's blatant attempt to protect big brand and political interests. It's not actually about the small creators. I want the dislike counter back.
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Sir please support me my viral my short Video please my chenal subscribe please
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This is part of the much larger agenda of controlling the perception of the people, while engineering, and directing the culture in the intended direction of the elite. Since about March of 2020 it’s become more clear than ever, you guys want full spectrum dominance of the flow of information. 

Google / YouTube — “We can no longer risk having the masses seeing the TRUE like/dislike ratio of tyrannical, draconian, and dictatorial governments / mandates, so we’ve decided to further restrict public feedback by creating a Nazi style Ministry of Propaganda to combat the peasants pushing back. Would be a tragedy if the general population knew that they are ALL OPPOSED to the NWO takeover.”
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This is part of the much larger agenda of controlling the perception of the people, while engineering, and directing the culture in the intended direction of the elite. Since about March of 2020 it’s become more clear than ever, you guys want full spectrum dominance of the flow of information. 

Google / YouTube — “We can no longer risk having the masses seeing the TRUE like/dislike ratio of tyrannical, draconian, and dictatorial governments / mandates, so we’ve decided to further restrict public feedback by creating a Nazi style Ministry of Propaganda to combat the peasants pushing back. Would be a tragedy if the general population knew that they are ALL OPPOSED to the NWO takeover.”
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This is part of the much larger agenda of controlling the perception of the people, while engineering, and directing the culture in the intended direction of the elite. Since about March of 2020 it’s become more clear than ever, you guys want full spectrum dominance of the flow of information. 

Google / YouTube — “We can no longer risk having the masses seeing the TRUE like/dislike ratio of tyrannical, draconian, and dictatorial governments / mandates, so we’ve decided to further restrict public feedback by creating a Nazi style Ministry of Propaganda to combat the peasants pushing back. Would be a tragedy if the general population knew that they are ALL OPPOSED to the NWO takeover.”
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As a content creator, am I allowed to share the dislikes of my own videos with my own users using the API?
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Downvoting this!! This is withdrawing one of the key signals the public has. Justifying this anti-information by saying that some were hurt by it doesn't justify putting Youtube viewers into perpetual dark. Stop feeding us this junk.
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Come on youtube?? Serious? I mean probably this is a great tool to direct peoples opinion!! Especially since the last one and a half year - #corona! We all know, the mainstream media is now more present on this platform. And we now too, that most of them dont allow comments (deactivated). And The only way for the community and users to give feedback is the Like or Dislike Button.

AND now - this is the critical point. If you dont allow people to be critical in some cases , even if its a small youtuber. Where is the freedom of speech????????????????????????????????

DAMN!!!
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I cancelled my YouTube Premium subscription and I will not be subscribing until the dislikes have been reverted.
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Please help to verifie my youtube channel
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I am canceling my premium subscription
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I am canceling my subscription, and I am running ad blockers to cheat your advertisers.
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Report all videos you dislike as spam or abusive. Do this to increase their workload. The "YOU" in youtube is no more. ThemTube now.
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Thank you to support
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Sad world we live in. Look at you BIG controllers. What the change has done made it less likely for me to give a thumbs up  now. So smaller channels or people cannot handle the truth that may come their way for putting up less quality or maybe they are completely off wall opinions and views so you wish to protect their feelings? You love to control what we think say and do. You are the epiphany of censorship. If I don't like something you can beat I will leave a comment letting them know with more depth than a simple thumbs down. You think their feeling get hurt with a thumbs down, wait till I explain in great detail why I give them a thumbs down. If you cant handle rejection then do not post on a PUBLIC entity. You youtube are the givers of participation trophies. You are inn part responsible for raising a generation of betas, or maybe that's what you want so you and others can have control without any push back.
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Free expression with respect is acceptable, but humans make mistakes thank you
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